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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Bill Stell, Professor, University of Calgary</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> September 1, 2017 7:16:09 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [visionlist] WE NEED HELP: A Petition Opposing the New NIH Clinical Trials Regulations</font>
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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
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<a href="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" class="">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</a>
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<div class="">The goal of fostering openness, transparency, & replicability is a good one that we endorse but this is not the way to get there.</div>
<div class="">It will make exploratory research more difficult, mislead the public, and burden researchers and their institutions with new bureaucratic requirements that will accomplish nothing. </div>
<div class="">NIH officials have already heard objections from many directions, but so far they seem to be considering at most small tweaks to their policy. </div>
<div class="">Therefore several of us have drafted an Open Letter to Francis Collins outlining the reasons for our objection to the new policy.</div>
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Please consider signing the Open Letter, which you can find here: <a href="https://ipetitions.com/petition/open-letter-nih-collins" class="">
https://ipetitions.com/petition/open-letter-nih-collins</a></div>
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