The question was, after clarification---At your institution, for
undergraduate student research projects with animals, individual and
group, are you required to have an external (i.e. from another
institution) review of the proposal for scientific merit?
I received 13 replies which appeared to
on 3/5/00 10:28 AM, Stephen Black at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Research on animals is only ethical if it has a chance of
increasing knowledge. Therefore any project without scientific merit
is by definition unethical.
Stephen,
I realize that you're paraphrasing the guidelines, and that
Stephen Black wrote:
A number of people seem stunned that we would send reviews externally
for any project, faculty or student, and some noted that they were not
supposed to consider scientific merit at all.
On the last point, these people are simply wrong. Although I agree with
John's
