When I was still doing government contract research, I had to go through NIH ethics training.
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That research was driven by one man, Karl Brandt, but he had many people acting under him, "following orders."
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Doing human subjects research, you must always be wary of following orders. Research is high pressure and grants depend on it.
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But you have to be willing to say "no" to a tenured professor, department head, boss. You MUST be willing to put your job on the line.
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I wish our LEO and border control officers had ethics training. More extensive. Disobeying unconstitutional orders needs to be trained.
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Doing that, standing up for that, is fucking hard. It's one of the hardest things to do. You wonder whether you're making a todo of nothing.
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I was a lead on a research project where a grad student forgot to consent the participants. I had to make the call whether to inform the IRB
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It's a super unpleasant place to be in. And when things go national scale it's easiest to be invisible.
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But these Border Patrok officers, and their bosses, need to look at the Constitution they chose to defend.
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They can stand up to injustice and send a strong message.
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Their decisions may be the life or death of the people in their charge.
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