After Falling for Fake Study, Review Board Steps Aside

IRBs must sign off on clinical trials before they can go ahead; a major charge they have is to look out for the well-being of trial subjects. Coast “approved our bogus research protocol for human subjects testing after only minor edits to our submission materials, even though we were a bogus company with falsified credentials and an unproven medical device.”

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