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Volume 337:283-284 July 24, 1997 Number 4
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Subpoenas and Science

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To the Editor: I would like to expand on the brief allusion to "confidentiality certificates" in Bert Black's thoughtful Sounding Board article on subpoenas and science (March 6 issue).1 Such federally issued certificates allow researchers to protect the privacy of their research subjects by withholding information that could identify them from "any Federal, State, or local civil, criminal, administrative, legislative, or other proceedings." 2 This makes confidentiality certificates useful in a variety of research settings besides those potentially involving product-liability cases that were the focus of the article. They are most frequently used in research on psychoactive-substance use and abuse, human . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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