• Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    Wow. There’s no way this was actually greenlit by an ethics committee unless they’re all corrupt. This is so blatantly wrong and manipulative.

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      7 days ago

      It was reviewed by an ethics board, but they changed the parameters of their study (shifting more towards using personal info against commenters/making up personal info to use in arguments) without it being approved by the ethics board. Essentially their study wasn’t going anywhere so they made it more unethical in order to have more data to work with. They’re on Reddit trying to defend themselves but no one is having it