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Stern eventually did meet with the jihadists, having already worked with the review board to develop a system in which she doesn’t learn the real names of the people she interviews...
...research relatively free of government interference. In the wake of a hard-won fight against a Washington subpoena in 2001—a case in which Harvard refused to help—the University is now working with Stern to protect her notes and her sources from federal review...
HARMFUL RESTRICTIONS Ethics review boards have operated at Harvard since the 1960s, and the Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects in Research monitors 1,000 to 1,200 studies by students and professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Business School, Law School, Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard’s other non-medical divisions each year, according to committee officers...
Stern is not the only terrorism researcher to feel that institutional review boards unnecessarily limit her. Scott Atran, a Middle East ethnographer at the University of Michigan, recently sent an essay to his colleagues about his struggles with the IRB process...
Following the review board’s advice, Stern has developed a system where she does not learn the names of many of the people she is interviewing—preferring to use pseudonyms—thus protecting the privacy of her interviewees and making her notes less valuable to federal investigators...