Homework 2

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.