Comment by jruohonen
20 hours ago
> Woah, the thing that leapt out at me, as a professor, is that they somehow got an exemption from the UMN institutional review board. .... in addition to being conducted deceptively
There are cases where deception (as they call it) can be approved (even by ethics boards). Based on the Verge's article, this research setup should not have been approved even by then. But the topic itself seems as relevant as ever with the xz case and all.
Right, that's something to discuss at the IRB review. But they didn't even do an IRB review before conducting the experiment. After the outcry, they went back to the IRB and said "was this OK?"