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Re:Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking by ch33zer on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:04PM (#27111438)
I wonder what kind of ethics are involved in this kind of study. The recent linux kernel/UMN affair [1] has made me more aware of what can or should be considered human research.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/855479/

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Re:Perverse Downstream Consequences of Debunking by rossdavidh on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:50PM (#27111836)
Presumably, if they put it before a review board, that board would have found that correcting people's misunderstanding of the facts of topic X is not unethical. Regardless of what one thinks of public "debunking" generally, the position of most in academia seems to be that telling people their news sources are not sound science, is not unethical.
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