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bossymarmalade) wrote2009-09-02 09:11 am
bossymarmalade) wrote2009-09-02 09:11 am
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just ask this scientician
Well shit, y'all:
reposting in entirety from deadlychameleon:
You know what that means, right? We've expended all our considerable might in explaining to them why their project is harmful, wrongheaded, and offensive, and they have ignored us.
So I say it's time to hail down the ridicule! Don't even bother getting mad, don't waste any more logic or explanation on them, just flood them with a motherfucking AVALANCHE of internet junk, in-jokes, macros, gifs -- whatever. There's no excuse they can give that would be of any worth, so let's not bother giving them the opportunity!
... Goddamn, I wish I had a "Cool as Ice" gif I could use.
ETA: Here's a good place to start -- a shitload of brain-modeling babblewank as an attempt to "explain" their statement about female interest in slash = male interest in transfolk. JUST SHUT UP ALREADY
reposting in entirety from deadlychameleon:
I called the Boston University IRB office. The direct approach works.
They've gotten a lot of emails regarding Dr. Ogas. He is no longer in any way affiliated with Boston University, except as a recent graduate. They have asked him to stop using his official Boston University email address in connection with this project, or his website. He is officially on his own, and this project is NOT IRB APPROVED.
That is the official status as stated by the Boston University IRB office.
The problem with this is threefold:
1. The researcher has no expertise in the area he is researching, nor has he recruited anyone to give him guidance.
2. The researcher has substantial profit motivation to produce work in this area (book contract with Penguin) which may lead to unethical conduct/a tendency to misrepresent his results.
3. The research is in no way overseen by any external body which can examine it for potential unethical conduct.
In addition to all of these, the researchers have now alienated their participant population, who are now very likely to become unreliable participants.
The only way to salvage the study at this point, I believe, would be for them to change it to an observational one.
You know what that means, right? We've expended all our considerable might in explaining to them why their project is harmful, wrongheaded, and offensive, and they have ignored us.
So I say it's time to hail down the ridicule! Don't even bother getting mad, don't waste any more logic or explanation on them, just flood them with a motherfucking AVALANCHE of internet junk, in-jokes, macros, gifs -- whatever. There's no excuse they can give that would be of any worth, so let's not bother giving them the opportunity!
... Goddamn, I wish I had a "Cool as Ice" gif I could use.
ETA: Here's a good place to start -- a shitload of brain-modeling babblewank as an attempt to "explain" their statement about female interest in slash = male interest in transfolk. JUST SHUT UP ALREADY