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A funny cartoon of a job fair where research participants a placed beside other high risk jobs

Friday afternoon’s funny – Choosing to be a participant is nuts

As depicted by this funny Don Mayne cartoon, if you put research participation as a whole besides some seriously risky professions, you can only wonder: why would anyone choose to do that? Especially when benefits to individuals might be minimal, many cases in my be at best, just our best guess. For some potential participant cohorts, their reasons might be selfless and a desire to make a contribution to an area of scientific inquiry. Not a benefit to themselves but to people in the future.

A funny cartoon two researchers competing by pulling a participant in opposite directions.

Friday afternoon’s funny – Making things a competition predictable consequences

It is easy to imagine the consequences of paying recruiters on the basis of the number of participants recruited. Much as when we reward and promote researchers on the basis of the number of papers they publish. Quality, responsible and ethical conduct is discarded in the competition. We need systems that recognise positive conduct that adds to, no undermines, the highest standards of quality and ethical excellence.

A funny cartoon about the mayhem caused if kangaroos where used as Lab animals,

Friday afternoon’s funny – What’s that skip, trouble in the lab?

Kangaroos may be plentiful in Australia and many justifiably might consider them pests, but that doesn’t mean they are potential laboratory animals. As this Don Mayne humorous cartoon depicts, awful mayhem might ensue. Especially if a vintage Australian television show was right about how smart they are.

Funny cartoon stall faster and easier review being more popular stalls about careful and thorough reviews.

Friday afternoon’s funny – It isn’t a popularity contest

Selecting the best human research ethics framework/code/regulation cannot become a popularity contest. Fast and easy cannot be treated as a hallmark of quality. Proportional, project specific and facilitative are great standards to use. But they cannot come at the expense of participant protection, good oversight and thorough review. This Don Mayne cartoon uses a kids science project based upon crowd reaction as a metaphor for wrong way to evaluate national (or indeed institutional) standards.

A funny cartoon about the mayhem in a classroom with motorise school desks.

Friday afternoon’s funny – Failure of common sense

If common sense didn’t want to warn them how this could go wrong, a reference group could of. Good research design is informed by people with expertise in the community, participant pool or context.

Funny cartoon about the work of a monkey being rejected by a boss.

Friday afternoon’s funny – Monkey typing

The saying and derision used to be about monkeys mindlessly tapping on keys, no it might be about hat GPT. We wonder what this Don Mayne cartoon would look like if it were updated for 2023,

A funny cartoon of two women bemoaning a study manager stop calling once he got what he is after.

Friday afternoon’s funny – What a cad

The relationship between study teams, recruiters and research sites, can sometimes feel like dating or a one night stand, where the interest of the pursuer wanes once they have got what they want. It can leave the site feeling like the situation depicted this Don Mayne cartoon.

A funny cartoon of what medical researchers really meant by their recruitment title.

Friday afternoon’s funny – Be wary of their true meaning

This humorous Don Mayne cartoon depicts why potential participants in medical research should always be careful that their assumptions about a research project match the design of a project. Even though it is unlikely that a planned project will be this ghastly or dangerous, this is why research ethics review bodies should be aware of how researchers will describe their project in recruitment materials. This is to watch against text that might give a false impression about a project.

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Friday afternoon’s funny – Choosing to be a participant is nuts

Friday afternoon’s funny – What’s that skip, trouble in the lab?

Friday afternoon’s funny – It isn’t a popularity contest

Friday afternoon’s funny – Failure of common sense

Friday afternoon’s funny – Monkey typing

Friday afternoon’s funny – What a cad

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