[visionlist] WE NEED HELP: A Petition Opposing the New NIH Clinical Trials Regulations

[Radu Mutihac]

I do agree with Bill!
Hope to make ourselves loud and clear.
Best,
Radu

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On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:01 PM, William K. Stell <wstell at ucalgary.ca>
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> I second the opinion voiced by others, that this needs to be signed by
> scientists everywhere ... so the online petition needs to be formatted for
> submissions from outside the US.
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> *Subject:* [visionlist] WE NEED HELP: A Petition Opposing the New NIH
> Clinical Trials Regulations
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From: *Jeremy Wolfe <jeremywolfe0131 at gmail.com>
> *Subject: **WE NEED HELP: A Petition Opposing the New NIH Clinical Trials
> Regulations*
> *Date: *August 31, 2017 at 11:54:50 AM PDT
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> As many of you will have heard by now, NIH has adopted a new policy that
> denies the distinction between basic research and clinical trials, and,
> starting in January 2018 requires virtually all basic research studies to
> be registered as a clinical trial. This policy is outlined here:
> https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2017/08/11/4-questions-for-
> researchers-and-institutions-involved-in-human-subjects-
> research/?utm_source=nexus&utm_medium=email&utm_content=
> nihupdate&utm_campaign=jul17
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> The goal of fostering openness, transparency, & replicability is a good
> one that we endorse but this is not the way to get there.
> It will make exploratory research more difficult, mislead the public, and
> burden researchers and their institutions with new bureaucratic
> requirements that will accomplish nothing.
> NIH officials have already heard objections from many directions, but so
> far they seem to be considering at most small tweaks to their policy.
> Therefore several of us have drafted an Open Letter to Francis Collins
> outlining the reasons for our objection to the new policy.
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> Please consider signing the Open Letter, which you can find here:
> https://ipetitions.com/petition/open-letter-nih-collins
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> You can also write a comment on the policy here:
> https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2017/08/11/4-questions-for-
> researchers-and-institutions-involved-in-human-subjects-
> research/?utm_source=nexus&utm_medium=email&utm_content=
> nihupdate&utm_campaign=jul17
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> Please forward this email widely to other scientists who you think might
> be interested.
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