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Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg by killjoywashere on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:49PM (#29597468)
> even a genius in his lab building a life saving cure will forget to listen to the victims of the sacrifices he requires for the greater good

As a nerd in a building trying to build things to save lives from disease (“cure” is too strong a word), there are explicit ethics reviews my work has to go through, with an almost bizarre frequency, so I disagree with this statement specifically. Otherwise, I enjoyed your comment.

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Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg by quinnjh on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:28PM (#29600546)
For us to grow beyond entrenched binaries takes self awareness. Could you perhaps see how another doctor who hs caused harm before may have believed they were truly only doing good - and this could have been enabled by them being barraged with ethics reviews? "What do you mean i caused harm i have to do all these things to prove that i dont do harm" Meanwhile history shows clearly the sacrifices that were taken.
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