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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2017 21:39:12 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • Danyl Strype
   > Then after World War II, everybody met up and decided to only do ethical human experiments from then on. And the most important part of being ethical was to have all experiments monitored by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) made of important people who could check whether experiments were ethical or not. I dutifully parroted all this back on the post-test (“Blindly trusting authority to make our ethical decisions for us is the best way to separate ourselves from the Nazis!”) and received my Study Investigator Certification.
   
   > I sometimes worry that people misunderstand the case against bureaucracy. People imagine it’s Big Business complaining about the regulations preventing them from steamrolling over everyone else. That hasn’t been my experience. Big Business – heck, Big Anything – loves bureaucracy. They can hire a team of clerks and secretaries and middle managers to fill out all the necessary forms, and the rest of the company can be on their merry way. It’s everyone else who suffers. The amateurs, the entrepreneurs, the hobbyists, the people doing something as a labor of love. Wal-Mart is going to keep selling groceries no matter how much paperwork and inspections it takes; the poor immigrant family with the backyard vegetable garden might not.
   
   http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/
   
   @strypey will probably find this article interesting.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2017 23:00:42 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Danyl Strype
     • anonymous shitposter of terror
     @hardbass2k8 @strypey Yes! I figure a sharpened pencil would be more dangerous than a ballpoint pen.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2017 00:09:24 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Danyl Strype
     • anonymous shitposter of terror
     @hardbass2k8 @strypey Wow. That ... actually solves everything.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2017 15:15:51 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Danyl Strype
     @strypey CYA
   • Brandon Hall (bthall@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2017 15:18:41 UTC Brandon Hall

     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

     @lnxw48a1 Thanks for bringing me in the loop about this discussion! This was a big topic of discussion in the philosophy class that I took about business ethics. Large business interests sometimes conduct public policy campaigns that would supposedly remove gov meddling in biz (a desired thing among freemarketeers), when in fact the policy does little more than reduce the burden upon only the large business interests, leaving issues for little guys.

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   • Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2017 13:19:41 UTC Annah

     • Danyl Strype
     @strypey @clacke I wish to add an important factor to consider in this discussion,. speaking from personal experience in my former practice: a lot of the people pushing for behaviour regulation drugs, in particular BPD, ADHD, and OCD medications, are not healthcare professionals.  They're teachers with discipline problems with their students, parents who can't cope with rebellious kids, and the like.  I saw many an individual whom we would not consider to have a mental disorder with people behind them pushing for medication.  These medications are often used not as a curative, or a preventative even, not to treat a condition the prospective patient has, but the laziness of the individuals around them.
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