<div dir="ltr"><div>> From: <a href="mailto:cvnet-bounces@lawton.ewind.com">cvnet-bounces@lawton.ewind.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cvnet-bounces@lawton.ewind.com">cvnet-bounces@lawton.ewind.com</a>] On Behalf Of Jeremy Wolfe</div><div>> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 2:55 PM</div><div>> To: CVNET <<a href="mailto:cvnet@mail.ewind.com">cvnet@mail.ewind.com</a>></div><div>> Subject: [cvnet] WE NEED HELP: A Petition Opposing the New NIH Clinical Trials Regulations</div><div> </div><div>As many of you will have heard by now, NIH has adopted a new policy that denies the distinction between basic research and clinical trials, and, starting in January 2018 requires virtually all basic research studies to be registered as a clinical trial. This policy is outlined here:</div><div><a href="https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2017/08/11/4-questions-for-researchers-and-institutions-involved-in-human-subjects-research/?utm_source=nexus&utm_medium=email&utm_content=nihupdate&utm_campaign=jul17">https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2017/08/11/4-questions-for-researchers-and-institutions-involved-in-human-subjects-research/?utm_source=nexus&utm_medium=email&utm_content=nihupdate&utm_campaign=jul17</a></div><div> </div><div>The goal of fostering openness, transparency, & replicability is a good one that we endorse but this is not the way to get there.</div><div>It will make exploratory research more difficult, mislead the public, and burden researchers and their institutions with new bureaucratic requirements that will accomplish nothing. </div><div>NIH officials have already heard objections from many directions, but so far they seem to be considering at most small tweaks to their policy. </div><div>Therefore several of us have drafted an Open Letter to Francis Collins outlining the reasons for our objection to the new policy.</div><div><br></div><div>Please consider signing the Open Letter, which you can find here: <a href="https://ipetitions.com/petition/open-letter-nih-collins">https://ipetitions.com/petition/open-letter-nih-collins</a></div><div><br></div><div>You can also write a comment on the policy here:</div><div><a href="https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2017/08/11/4-questions-for-researchers-and-institutions-involved-in-human-subjects-research/?utm_source=nexus&utm_medium=email&utm_content=nihupdate&utm_campaign=jul17">https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2017/08/11/4-questions-for-researchers-and-institutions-involved-in-human-subjects-research/?utm_source=nexus&utm_medium=email&utm_content=nihupdate&utm_campaign=jul17</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please forward this email widely to other scientists who you think might be interested.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jeremy Wolfe</div><div><a href="mailto:jeremywolfe0131@gmail.com">jeremywolfe0131@gmail.com</a></div><div> </div><div>Editor: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI)</div><div>CRPI is the new open access, peer-reviewed journal of the Psychonomics Society</div><div>Do you do "use-inspired, basic research" in Cognition? That is what we publish.</div><div><a href="http://www.cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/">http://www.cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/</a></div><div><br></div></div>