Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor

Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor by _dps on Sunday January 13, 2019 @06:50PM (#18899499)

By this logic performance art done in view of humans should be subject to IRB review — it is, after all, trying to provoke and observe a reaction in a group of humans.

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Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor by gumby on Sunday January 13, 2019 @06:57PM (#18899520)

If people get tickets to see your art they aren't really being experimented on.

If you want to, say, explode a simulated bomb in a TSA screening area to call attention to the waste of lives inherent in the checkpoints...yes, you'd need an IRB sign off, but probably that would be the least of your problems.

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Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor by wgerard on Sunday January 13, 2019 @07:16PM (#18899607)

If the performance art:

1) Qualifies as research, and

2) Is directly or indirectly funded by a federal research grant

then yes, it would.

I doubt much performance art qualifies, though.

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