That's an important point.
I should say that I read that report. I can't independently confirm it, but it seems to make sense that there are obviously incentives inside IRB to move things quickly. We're the ones putting pressure on them. The country and the government are putting pressure on the IRB to move quickly. It makes sense that individual members of the IRB would feel pressure to expedite the process.
The risk, of course, is that there won't be due process and that people who should be caught before being approved won't be. I would be surprised if there weren't such pressures. Is that correlation between tenure and the number of recognitions they provide real? I can't say for sure that it is real, but it's possible.