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    • .Donuts@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      “The researchers argue that psychological manipulation of OPs on this sub is justified because the lack of existing field experiments constitutes an unacceptable gap in the body of knowledge”

      They were just convinced the end justified the means. Ethics be damned, there’s knowledge to pursue

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      They didn’t put it by one. They allege that they thought that since there were no studies in the same vein, it therefore ought to be acceptable, conveniently ignoring the fact that a lot of things that hadn’t been experimented on for the first time were later widely decried as things that never should have happened.

      I’d call them weasels, but that would be unfair to actual weasels.