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Nature 438, 136-137 (10 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438136b; Published online 9 November 2005

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Researchers break the rules in frustration at review boards

Jim Giles

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Experiments on human subjects go ahead without official approval, says survey.

The watchdogs that oversee the ethics of human research projects can sometimes provoke scientific misconduct. That is the counter-intuitive conclusion of a series of papers to be published over the next few months.

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