IRB's Gone Wild?

[RJRersb]

Our relatively new IRB has sent back a proposal from a colleague.  The IRB refuses to evaluate the proposal without the author addressing issues of RELIABILITY and VALIDITY of measures.  I find this to be a bit scary.  While I feel that the IRB is properly charged with evaluating the risk to participants using a given method, I do not feel that the IRB has any place evaluating the appropriateness of the method beyond the evaluation of risk...especially in cases with minimum risk.  My contention is that the reliabilty and validity of measures should be outside the perview of the IRB unless risk levels exceed minimum and a cost/benefit decision must be discussed. 

Thoughts?  Can anyone help me out here? ---
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