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...Communist Party charged that Mao Tse-tung is not a true Communist and that his policies threaten the party with extinction in China. The party ideological journal Kommunist declared that Mao's policies are "not only a matter of purely Chinese concern" and that they are "doing great harm to the cause of socialism and revolution throughout the world." Kommunist accused Mao of demanding "blind obedience and barrack-room discipline, which turns a human being into a small screw in a bureaucratic machine...
...Brennan concluded that scientific evidence had neither proved nor disproved that point. Since the court does not require that legislatures have "scientifically certain criteria for legislation," there are no grounds for a finding that the New York law "has no rational relation to the objective of safeguarding minors from harm...
Although the need for a secret society can be questioned on ideological grounds, the harm of such a group at the Law School is something which touches everybody. There is little doubt that objection to the Choate Club would be minimal if the group were composed entirely of students, or of faculty, and if the Law School were a low-key institution run on a pass-fail system. The outsiders could brush it off as "the beautiful people doing their thing." But a secret fraternal order of faculty and students does great damage at a competitive institution which justifies...
...committee's qualified acceptance of Milgram's procedure tells much about its values. Professor Sheldon White acknowledged that Harvard's committee was probably "more on the side of the researcher" than the equivalent committees at Berkeley and Stanford. One committee member who was concerned about the possible harm to Milgram's subjects felt research could be sufficiently important to outweigh this damage--she felt the world's pressing problems require knowledge, and consequently research...
...days when experimenters could do what they wanted are gone. Although the committee is quite cautious in the areas of confidentiality, privacy and legality, if a situation came up in which they felt the research was valuable enough, they would probably allow the risk of much possible harm. In the area of human experimentation, morality is becoming bureaucratized, and ethics institutionalized. Research is king. Like an over-anxious mother, Harvard's watchdog committee examines, modifies and then approves of everything that comes its way. Fortunately there are no Milgrams in the research community...