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...design became known. "I hope she does not work," said one rival designer, "or I will have to forget everything I ever learned." Even Mariner's supporters had fears. Skipper Ted Turner thought the boat "did not look right" when he first saw her. M.I.T. Hydro-dynamicist Jerome Milgram, who did preliminary consulting for Chance, had warned in a 1972 article that promising test-tank readings might not be reliable...
...served to ethically educate the research community, as Professor Joel Porte, another member of the committee, suggested, or whether there is simply no longer any interest in deception experiments, decisions on ethics of human experimentation are easier than they have been in the past. In 1960, Professor Stanley Milgram of Yale embarked on a study of "obedience to authority" which was later to arouse much moral outrage. Under the pretense that he was studying the effect of punishment on learning, Milgram had subjects shock a "student" (actually a member of the experimental team) when the "student" erred in a prescribed...
...Milgram experiment was clearly deceptive, and the subjects were hardly competent to give their informed consent. Yet, the experiment was conducted. No proposal like this has ever come up before the Standing Committee. Six of the 12 committee members were asked whether Milgram could conduct his experiment today at Harvard. Of the five who felt they could answer, four indicated they would approve it, with firm qualifications about the selection of the subjects and their post-experimental handling...
Although no comparable proposal has ever come up, the 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...
...Milgram hopes that if the project is successful, the students will publish the results. In the meantime, they will wait in William James for the first-hand accounts to come in the mail...