My Case:
I brought in an article about amputation by choice. Some people want to have limbs
amputated even though there may be nothing physically wrong with the limbs. A
disorder has been named body integrity identity disorder (BIID). People with BIID
feel that their limbs are not part of their bodies or it excites them. Some people
researchers think that people with this disorder have a type of reverse phantom limb
experience where they feel that their is no limb where their limb physically is.
Doctors are divided on whether it is right or wrong to perform these amputations
under these conditions.
Group's Cases
1. Eric: A student does research for a professor. The findings will be used by the
professor in a conference he will be attending soon. The data the student obtains
supports the professors view. The student discovers however that not all of the
controls were set right. we discussed if the student should tell the professor or not
about the controls.
A student does a long series of experiments for his professor. The
experiments show no results that support the professors ideas. The professor has
faith in the experiments though and wants the student to continue. We discussed
whether the student should stop doing the experiments or to continue.
2. Suzanne: suzanne brought an article about Google vs. Bing. Bing has been using
some sort of algorithm in order to copy all of the search results that Google has
been using. Google performed a test in which they linked a random string of letters
to a website that had nothing to do with the search. A few days later Bing had the
exact same search result that Google had. We discussed what Google should do about
this issue.
3. Christina: Christina asked when animal testing would be ethical. Such as for
medical reasons or for cosmetics and other such reasons.
4. T. J.: Nelson Nice ran an undergraduate program but did not finish his
experiement. Jason asked for the research data and later published the research as
his own. We discussed what should be done by Nelson Nice.
5. Omar: NASA had a satelite built. A foreign company was contracted to help build
it. When NASA wanted to send the satelite to Mars it was lost. The contracted
company had used a measurement system but told NASA the wrong measurement system. We
discussed whether this was ethical or not.
6. Amber: We had a discussion about social networking sites and what should be done
when a person does. If the page should be locked after a certain period of time or if
control the person's page should be given to someone the person trusted.
7. Caleb: A researcher did some research on a hypothesis. She obtained some data
and intended to do intensive research based on the data she had already obtained.
Another group approached her about using the data for their research. we asked if she
should give the group the data or keep it for herself.
My Project Idea:
For my project I am interesting in researching how cyber warfare would be fought in the future such as who would be the soldiers, what sort of attacks would be used, how would a group "win" a war.