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The Importance of External Oversight in Social Science
I think we can somewhat draw a distinction here between research that on its face, there's a clear risk to participants. We're going to need people to be reviewing whether these experiments are justified and whether participants are getting sufficient protection with very different kinds of research. And it certainly seems like people are so good at rationalizing that it is hard to trust the researchers themselves to make like the right judgment about risks. Yeah. You know, just we just have so many examples of this where, you know, we humans think we're doing something that's totally fine.