"Harm" is gray, not black and white. Almost anything we publish could *cause harm* in some way. However the Rorschach images are not BLPs. I'm sure publishing details to day about President Wilson's adultery might "cause harm" to his descendents if any, but it's already been published in a dozen books so we should not be the instrument for suppressing it, or for insinuating the desire (by our action or inaction) for other media to suppress it.
Published details of World War II might cause harm, that doesn't mean we should not do it. I don't think there is any community consensus for extending that particular policy language to the entire project.
Psychologists, like any other scientists, should make allowances for the subject-knowledge problem, that the subject knows the expected answers and knows how to manipulate the results. Taking account for that possibility is just a part of being a scientist.
Protest alone is not sufficient to justify censorship.
In a message dated 8/1/2009 8:40:13 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, arromdee@rahul.net writes:
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
I think that AGF requires that we take the psychologists at their word when they claim that they want the pictures removed because they cause
harm,
rather than to help their income.
Methinks that posting was a smiley facey wanting. I sincerely hope you weren't in dead earnest.
What makes you think I wasn't in dead earnest? Because it's obviously silly that someone would accuse psychologists of that? It's nowhere near as silly as lots of other things people say with all seriousness over the Internet. (And for all I know, I could have been talking to a Scientologist, and that's exactly how they think of psychologists.)
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