I guess I’ll do the google search that you couldn’t be bothered to do before making wild assertions about violating people’s rights.
The current study is a replication of the one linked above, you can click on ‘Methodology’ to learn about participant protocols.
You say you don’t think I know anything about research protocols. As a public health researcher I think it’s funny that someone who does claim to know about them would even think that it would be possible for a federally funded research study like this to be conducted without IRB approval or PII and HIPAA reviews.
How do you think government research works? You, a lot of the other commenters here, and the author of the BB article kind of sound like conspiracy nuts to me. Without knowing if there were any violations of protocols that led to complaints in this instance, I hate to think that Federal public health research should only be conducted if it won’t offend the orneriest tea party members in Texas. That’s a tough bar to clear.
