tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post631839053759723748..comments2024-03-28T19:14:33.619-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: The Purview of Human Subjects CommitteesEric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-10134161682086301262009-04-28T08:44:00.000-07:002009-04-28T08:44:00.000-07:00Thanks for the kind words, Michael!
Manuel: Thank...Thanks for the kind words, Michael!<br /><br />Manuel: Thanks for the anecdote. That's exactly the kind of thing.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-54941463302756379772009-04-27T06:45:00.000-07:002009-04-27T06:45:00.000-07:00The Stanford IRB once required me to get consent f...The Stanford IRB once required me to get consent forms signed every time I talked to a philosopher in Mexico when I was doing some research on philosophy in Mexico. They couldn't explain to me why philosophers talking to philosophers elsewhere didn't need to get these things signed. It was really weird, and one of these cases where it felt like regulation had to be wildly beyond any defensible aim or intent. But yeah, I think the unequal power/potential for abuse standard seems like the relevant one.Manuel Vargasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-58420058232218899872009-04-24T20:46:00.000-07:002009-04-24T20:46:00.000-07:00This is my kind of philosophy: Literature, journal...This is my kind of philosophy: Literature, journalism, medicine, psychology, and music all in a few paragraphs.<br /><br />Christopher Hitchens writes, "But the right and warrant of an individual critic [i.e. investigative journalist] does not need to be demonstrated in the same way as that of a holder of power. It is in most ways its own justification."Michael Metzlerhttp://www.poohsthink.comnoreply@blogger.com