On 2021-04-25 1:46 p.m., Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote:
Zero Tolerance allows one to live. They need to be shot !
Please don't make death threats on the mailing list. They are people who are researchers who made some ill-advised decisions, nothing more. The most worrying aspect for me is that the academic supervisor got the study exempted from an IRB review. IRBs review any research that involves human subjects and are supposed to filter out research that could be unethical or exploitative. Now that this affair is all public, UMN has called a halt to this reseearch and their IRB has deemed that the work should have been reviewed by them all along. I don't believe the rumours that the supervisor never submitted the research proposal to the IRB. I'm more concerned about how the supervisor may have attempted to get around the IRB for this (now) very obvious piece of social engineering. cheers, Stewart