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This is not social responsibility. It's an emotional reaction to a scientific study. There is nothing irresponsible about the study.

Science doesn't have to care for the emotions of specific groups. Then we're doomed.

And yes, neurotypical women are close to identical at the meta level I'm talking about. Same for men.

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>Science doesn't have to care for the emotions of specific groups. Then we're doomed.

What's your opinion on the idea of scientific ethics?

> What's your opinion on the idea of scientific ethics?

Neither harm to the subjects of the research nor the ones conducting it is occurring, so it's unclear how scientific ethics comes into play.

Are you genuinely attempting to suggests that there some truths about the universe which are so inimical to the human spirit that we dare not reveal them? If so, the quote which springs immediately to mind is PKD's "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Most people regard ethics as rooted in emotion; we don't want to live in a society in which harm is done to people, because that contradicts our emotions about what is just. As such, the statement that science shouldn't care about emotions seems to imply that science shouldn't care about ethics, either - and this is especially important for those who believe that ethics are statements of emotion rather than appeals to objective morality. I wasn't speaking of this case in particular, but of scientific ethics in general.

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