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Research
Ethics
100

This CTY student does not have a favorite sport. This is course is his second CTY course. His first was Physics. And he plays the ukulele.

Who is Nahele?

100

This term means that the truth of certain statements depends on the subject.

What is subjective relativism?

100

This is a name for a sentence (or set of sentences) that provide support for the conclusion.

What is a premise (or What are premises)?

100

This is the disease that the study focused on.

What is syphilis?

100

The world medical association’s best-known policy statement that has undergone many revisions, the first of which was in 1964.

What is the Declaration of Helsinki?

200

This student likes to play video games. This student’s favorite sport is baseball and the student plays baseball.

Who is Helaina?

200

This term means that some moral statements are true independent of one’s mind.

What is moral objectivism?

200

An argument where if the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true as well has this property.

What is validity?

200

This is the social worker and epidemiologist who tirelessly worked to bring the study to an end.

Who is Peter Buxton?

200

An RCT in which a placebo is tested against a new drug.

What is a PCT? (or, What is a Placebo-controlled trial?)

300

This student likes to try different foods. His favorite sport is waterpolo.

Who is Logan?

300

This statement means that moral statements are true without any exceptions.

What is moral absolutism?

300

Another name for an argument that has only true premises and is valid.

What is soundness?

300

This physician and former director of the Public Health Service’s division of venereal disease advised that the Rosenwald fund set up a syphilis control program for Blacks in the South.

Who is Taliaferro Clark?

300

This is the first condition that the Nuremberg code requires that research participants give for any experiment involving humans as subjects.

What is informed consent?

400

This student has a nickname that consists of 4 letters. He used to play the trombone and the guitar.

Who is Alexander (or Alex)?

400

A marriage practice that Eskimos believed in.

What is polygamy?

400

This is a fallacy where one of the premises assumes (or takes for granted) the truth of the conclusion.

What is Begging the Question?

400

This is the year that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study officially began.

What is 1932?

400

This rule is proposed by Hans Jonas and requires that participants are selected on the basis of how strongly they identify with cause of the experiment.

What is the principle of identification?

500

This student has taken many CTY courses but cannot remember any of them.

Who is Sander?

500

A practice that the Callatians followed when one of their ancestors died.

What is eating their dead?

500

This is another name for Modus Ponens.

What is affirming the antecedent?

500

This is the reporter of the Washington Star who broke the news of the study, which led to public outcry and ultimately an end to the study?

Who is Jean Heller?

500

These four fundamental ethical principles must be respected when research involving human participants is conducted.

What are (i) Respect for persons; (ii) beneficence; (iii) justice?