Posted on 02/01/2023 5:51:25 PM PST by karpov
Recently, one of the departments on my campus invited an academic “expert,” who, among other specializations, “advise[s] on the ethical aspects of telescope siting,” to give a talk entitled “How Research Harms.”
The advertisements for the event summarized the speaker’s perspective with the declaration, “We ought to be restricting research based on a number of unique and underacknowledged harms … [which] are poorly understood and lack clear definitions.” Prominent among these “harms” are unspecified “psychological, social and moral hazards.”
This is but one example of a growing phenomenon in higher education. The perspective in question—that some sizable quantity of scientific research is causing undefined harms and must therefore be prevented on ethical grounds—has become widespread. It marks a significant departure from an earlier academic culture that celebrated the open-ended pursuit of truth as the fundamental value of higher education.
This transformation has been underway for some time. The creation of the IRB (Institutional Review Board) system marked the first stage of the effort to exert overarching ethical control over scientific and academic inquiry. When, two decades ago, I arrived on the campus where I am employed, I was informed by our IRB that any research I would do, as well as any classroom exercises involving human subjects, must protect participants from “a variety of types of risks.”
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Until people stop obsessing on race — and that means everybody — there will never be an end to racism.
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks..
Bkmk
Good article.
This obsession with race is also affecting the arts, particularly the performing arts, where the concern is not how well an actor or musician does his part or plays, but his color or sex. It’s irrational and I can’t imagine how it’s going to end…but it really needs to stop.
When you mix science with politics, you get politics.
Follow the Politics [and, as always, the Money].
So my question is, does this ethics problem extend to the teaching (or not) of disruptive content like Critical Race Theory?
yes, well, we mustn’t offend anyone anywhere. Drug induced euphoria cannot be disturbed /s
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