FOREWORD: SYMPOSIUM ON CENSORSHIP AND INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS

Contributing to the vigorous exchange of ideas were medical research scientists, social scientists, law professors, university administrators, Institutional Review Board ("IRB") members, and current and former high-level federal government officials.1 The views at the conference ranged from strong advocacy for the existing regulatory scheme to calls for its abolition, with most scholars falling somewhere in between. [...] the Foreword highlights the relative ease with which journalists conduct their studies when, in a university setting, an academic wishing to conduct similar research is likely to run into obstacles in the course of seeking IRB approval.