Tuesday, December 11, 2007

HTS employee's "National Loyalty" investigated for joking "'Okay, if we invade Iran, that's where I draw the line, hop the border, and switch sides"

"...The human-terrain program has generated enormous controversy among academic anthropologists, many of whom claim that anthropologists in military uniforms cannot possibly gain free and informed consent from the people they study (The Chronicle, November 30). Ms. Helbig says that in her four months of training, she can recall no explicit discussion of informed consent or any other element of fieldwork ethics..."

1 comment:

Fredrick said...

Are they kidding? Hire a grad student at $100,000 USD per year, with NO EXPERIENCE? Then fire her for a second rate joke? God help us.