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I'm not an academic, but aren't there standard practices for doing that sort of ethically questionable research. Namely, an ethics committee that you go to for
by gizmo686 8y ago
I'm not an academic, but aren't there standard practices for doing that sort of ethically questionable research. Namely, an ethics committee that you go to for the green light before proceeding.
- learc83 8y agoThere's usually an institutional review board that you go through when using research subjects, but you don't need to do that to publish something like a new algorithm you developed in a CS journal. In this case, the researcher probably should have gotten IRB approval because there were test subjects--the journal editors, peer reviewers, and probably journal readers. But I'm assuming they just skipped that process and said there were no human subjects.