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How do they obtained informed consent for human experimentation? If I understand, the researchers are summoned to the hospital bedside of someone undergoing car
by wolverine876 3y ago
How do they obtained informed consent for human experimentation? If I understand, the researchers are summoned to the hospital bedside of someone undergoing cardiac arrest. If they came into a loved one's room, or mine, I would be very angry. Any risk or distraction is too much.
But that's my perspective. Maybe they obtain permission from next of kin?
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoIt’s increasingly clear to me as a group, people who practice real science as a discipline, are an odd bunch that don’t necessarily fit into the social categories that would be bothered by these kinds of things I know nobody in my close friends or limited family that would bat an eye if someone came into my hospital room to do this
- wolverine876 3y agoPerhaps that is true on a social level, but informed consent is an institutionalized, strongly enforced rule of research.
- anigbrowl 3y agoIt seems pretty obvious that they didn't, and I suspect this whole project is a function of knowing the right people. I also don't think it's a very well-designed experiment (in that it makes some assumptions about where attention is focused; if there were truly an OOBE taking place, then I would not expect the disembodied consciousness to be connected to the sensory apparatus, nor to pay particular attention to a tablet with some random image being held up toward the ceiling), but I suppose you have to start somewhere. I don't think it's unethical exactly, but it's intrusive in an extremely weird fashion. Might be justifiable if the EEG cap turns up useful medical information independent of the parapsychological investigation.