IRB in the Movies
4 July 2008 at 3:43 pm Peter G. Klein 2 comments
| Peter Klein |
Took my son to see The Incredible Hulk today. Best scene (paraphrasing from memory):
Bad guy Emil Blonsky, demanding at gunpoint for nerdy science professor to inject him with Bruce Banner’s radiation-infected blood: “Make me like him!”
Professor: “It’s extremely dangerous. You don’t know what it could do to you!”
Blonsky grabs professor by the throat and hoists him over his head.
Professor: “I didn’t say I wouldn’t do it. I just need informed consent.”
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Rafe Champion | 4 July 2008 at 6:34 pm
He probably should have had a clearance from the ethics committee as well. Did the committee approve the injections for Banner?
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