Sociology 2206A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Haitian Vodou, Josef Mengele, Scientific Misconduct
26 Oct 2016
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Consider the following research projects: high school drug use survey. 50 students are interviwed on tape about whether they have used drugs and alcohol. They are selected at random over a lunch hour in the high school and interview on the stop. Being on tape, maybe the subject wont answer honestly. Risk of intimidation: zombie drug research. A research tells a haitian voodoo priest that he wishes to turn his enemy into a zombie. He participates in a ritual in which fragments of a human skull are mixed with poisons derived for a toad. (in reality, he is an ethno botanist hired to document the drugs effects) Ethical guidelines: rules about whether and how to conduct a study in a manner that protects participants while advancing knowledge. Nazi doctors such as mengele subjected concentration camp prisoners (including twins) to experiments to test exposure to cold, air pressure, poisons, etc. Serious psychological and physical harms (including death: humphreys" tearoom trade.
