Comment by thatguy0900
4 years ago
The professor, or any students, can just use a non edu email address, right? It really doesn't seem like a big deal to me. It's not like they can personally ban anyone who's been to that campus, just the edu email address.
However, if you use a personal email, you can’t hide behind “I’m just doing my research”.
no, that would get them around an automatic filter, but the ban was on people from the university, not just people using uni email addresses.
I'm not sure how the law works in such cases, but surely the IRB would eventually have to realize that an explicit denouncement by the victims means that the "research" cannot go ahead
For one, it’s a way of punishing the university.
Eg - If you want to do kernel related research, don’t go to the university of Minnesota.
Which is completely fine, IMO, because,as pointed out already, the university's IRB has utterly failed here. There is no way how this sort of "research" could have passed an ethics review.
- Human subjects - Intentionally misleading/misrepresenting things, potential for a lot of damage, given how widespread Linux is - No informed consent at all!
Sorry but one cannot use unsuspecting people as guinea pigs for research, even if it is someone from a reputable institution.