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I felt the most emphatic "no" when I read the headline. It is a form of power to be granted the ability to deceive without social repercussions. It is unethical

I felt the most emphatic "no" when I read the headline. It is a form of power to be granted the ability to deceive without social repercussions. It is unethical to turn science into an institution of power; it is already tangled up with many such institutions, and many of them control medicine and many have done atrocious things to human beings. Science without ethics degrades science and turns it into an apparatus of violence.

partomniscient 11y ago
Another emphatic "no" here. Science without ethics has already degraded into an apparatus of profiteering. The worst thing about the medical industry is the lack of collecting ongoing informative feedback. From a game theory/power concern it's actually in their interests to avoid collecting data which may reveal their mistakes, but the clients/patients are all worse off as a result. This in turn also creates a positive feedback mechanism as a need for increasing the size of the medical sector to deal with said uncaught mistakes and continues ad-infinitum. The subjectiveness on the mental health side of things only amplifies this effect. Can anyone else see a problem here...?