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When the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study about social contagion on Facebook in June 2014, reaction was fast and furious. By the end of July, one could search online for criticism of Facebooks social contagion study and produce 6.3 million links.
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Investigators and student researchers repeatedly called the IRB at the University of the Incarnate Word, asking the same questions, and IRB reviewers complained of continually seeing the same mistakes. Clearly, it was time to make IRB office system and procedural changes.
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Because of the unusual scope of the National Children's Study (NCS), it raises a significant range of ethical issues for its designers and for the IRBs that have been reviewing it at 105 study centers across the United States.
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The 1960s obedience experiments of Stanley Milgram have become a hallmark of social behavioral research, as well as a cautionary tale for those involved in human subjects protection.
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Researchers at the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL, are studying physical interventions used in a virtual world. Their work opens new horizons for rehabilitation clinical care, but also raises new questions for ethics review boards.
