A cartoon showing someone pointing out that last year’s ethics forms need to be redone, followed by a satirical “research fact” claiming that clinical trials fail ethics due to unexplained blood stains and suspicious absences.
History
Creation date
2016-09-03
AltText
A figure notes old ethics forms must be redone, and a joke references blood stains causing failed ethics applications.
Transcript
Person 1: "Looks like you filled out last year's forms"
Person 1: "You'll need to do them all again"
Research 'facts'
The most common cause of clinical trials failing ethics applications is unexplained blood stains on the documentation
...and the frequency of suspicious absences in the ethics department