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AAAS Resolution:
Protection of Human Subjects of Research
Whereas the American Association for the Advancement of Science is deeply concerned with all matters that affect the well-being of the scientific research enterprise, and
Whereas it is essential to that enterprise both that individuals who serve as the subjects of research be properly protected and that freedom of scientific inquiry be restricted no more than is necessary to prevent the occurrence of consequential harm, and
Whereas the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is considering regulations* designed to protect human subjects from research practices that pose no discernible risk of harm other than that ordinarily encountered in the exercise of free speech,
Therefore be it resolved that the Association urge that further government regulation designed to protect the human subjects of scientific inquiry not be made applicable to studies that involve no more than the free exchange of information between adult subjects, competent to make their own decisions, and the scientist.
*Proposed in the Federal Register of 14 August 1979. [Adopted by the AAAS Council, January 7, 1981.]
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