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...secret energy powwows have taken him to court, Annan is in the comfortable position of having the authority (since the U.N. hardly has the types of checks and balances legitimate governmental organizations do) to suppress whatever reports he want. And, in this case, 50 Oil-for-Food audit reports have underwent this same fate—even as Annan declares he knows nothing about the whole situation...
According to the Globe, the most serious ethical infraction that surfaced during the federal audit pertained to an anonymous gambling survey conducted without the IRB’s approval. The researcher in charge of the survey said he was not aware that research dealing with anonymous subjects was required to face the board’s scrutiny, but federal health officials at the OHRP were never informed of the incident...
John Lacey, a spokesperson for HMS, wrote in an e-mail that the federal audit was “routine,” indicating that the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP), the branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which launched the investigation in March, had not been prompted by any initial suspicions of procedural failures...
...routine nature of this recent audit is a marked departure from the last time Harvard was confronted by the OHRP two years ago, when the group was alerted by a third party that patients were being insufficiently protected during genetic research experimentation in China...
Three of the other experiments in question were flagged during the OHRP’s audit for using inappropriately technical language in their consent forms—a fairly common problem among research scientists, according to HMS Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics Lisa S. Lehmann...