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		jpm48 on April 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” yep first thing I thought was how did this get through the research ethics panel (all research at my University has to get approval).

oh_sigh on April 21, 2021 [–]

What I don't understand is how this is ethical, but the sokol hoax was deemed unethical. I assume it's because I'm sokol's case, academia was humiliated, whereas here the target is outside academia

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