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Re: Legality of Millgram-type psychological experiments

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Mon May 19 22:38:33 1997

To: tcmay@got.net (Tim May)
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 20:57:18 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: mpd@netcom.com, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <v03007800afa631f038c4@[207.167.93.63]> from "Tim May" at May 19, 97 08:42:48 am
From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)

Tim May wrote:
> 
> At 7:12 AM -0800 5/19/97, Mike Duvos wrote:
> 
> >Of course, such psychological experiments are banned today, because they
>                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >don't make it through the ethics committees.  Nonetheless they demonstrate
> >that there are few differences between "us" and "them," and that most
> >ordinary people will rise to the occasion when given a new pair of
> >jackboots.
> 
> I'm curious about the "such psychological experiments are banned today"
> assertiokn.

These experiments were mostly done at Stanford.

After the unbelievable scandal with the jail experiment (which, to my
knowledge, involved physical injuries), Stanford Board forbade any
experiments done without the approval of a special ethics councel.

Many other universities followed.

(please correct me if i am mistaken)

	- Igor.


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