Comment by detaro
4 years ago
Individual groups at unis are very independent, little oversight is common.
UMN CS associate department head on this: https://twitter.com/lorenterveen/status/1384965111014641667 (TL;DR: they didn't hear about this before because each group does its thing, leadership doesn't get involved in IRB process, in his opinion IRB failed - situation analogous to cases known to be problematic in other subfields https://twitter.com/lorenterveen/status/1384955467051454466 )