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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics
80,000 Hours Podcast
The Importance of Ethics in Academic Research
i've had the experience of watching people who were trying to do really important academic research that got bogged down by IRBs. I mean if you ask any one universities they'll have horror stories about these ethical review boards or institutional review boards. In every case it just kind of no longer became worth it when academics were like ah this is gonna take forever and so basically we just didn't do the studies, he says. He cites an example in which someone was trying to get recruitment material from al-qaeda and show it to a bunch of young men either in the uk or the united states as part of their study. The issue apparently was never raised that somebody might develop sympath
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