Word: oversights
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...conscious choice to exclude the deaths of hundreds of Muslims from news coverage is not simply an oversight or for lack of interest in international news. Considering that the 57 Hindus who were killed were deemed worthy of the front page, it is highly suspicious that there was no follow up for the Muslim victims. The media must give evenhanded treatment to all regions of the world and all ethnic groups. Otherwise, it will fall into the trap serving prejudicial news in a world that severely needs a better understanding of people different from themselves...
...Public Health researcher in rural China did not properly inform the subjects of their rights. It was even more disturbing that a federal agency concluded that the School of Public Health’s internal review board failed to provide “substantive and meaningful” oversight of a project for which the University received research money...
...University has since improved the way it monitors research, increasing resources devoted to direct oversight. But to reduce the chances of a mistake like this recurring, all University research review boards must be competent and dedicated to giving strict ethical scrutiny to all Harvard-affiliated projects...
Harvard’s name will inevitably be associated with any research undertaken under its auspices. Instead of only finding out about problems like this after the fact, increased substantive oversight would prevent researchers from neglecting the rights of their subjects. No harm to the Chinese subjects has been reported in this case, but greater scrutiny must be given to projects in which the University has a stake. Harvard’s interest should never endanger the welfare of research subjects...
...There were deficiencies in our procedure and in our oversight, absolutely,” said HSPH spokesperson Robin Herman. “We fully agree with the thrust of the OHRP report.” Eleven of the studies were conducted by one researcher—Associate Professor of Medicine Xiping Xu—whose research in China was suspended by HSPH pending an outside audit commissioned by the school’s administrators...