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The formal ethics of research on humans requires informed consent of participants. You can take framework of sales or management where lie is just being smart, but it is not applicable here.
> The formal ethics of research on humans requires informed consent of participants. How do you explain research on placebos then?
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> How is asking someone questions a legal threat? It isn't. Being paranoid about lawsuits against some personal blog shows a lack of legal sophistication and this type of sensationalism promotes an irrational fear of being somehow financially vulnerable to almost any legal predation. That's simply not how the US system works. There have to be actual damages for a court case to go forward to the worst-case expensive e…
Following those questions by citing a statute of the law, however, IS a legal threat. Implicit in citing specific parts of the law is the threat that those parts of the law apply to this situation .
Nope. A legal threat is a statement by a party that it intends to take legal action on another party. GL with whatever.