[light_hue_1]

This research is not exempt.

One of the important rules you must agree to is that you cannot deceive anyone in any way, no matter how small, if you are going to claim that you are doing exempt research.

These researchers violated the rules of their IRB. Someone should contact their IRB and tell them.

[ShamblingMound]

This was (1) research with human subjects (2) where the human subjects were deceived, and (3) there was no informed consent!

If the IRB approved this as exempt and they had an accurate understanding of the experiment, it makes me question the IRB itself. Whether the researchers were dishonest with the IRB or the IRB approved this as exempt, it's outrageous.

[srl]

Just so you know, you appear to have been shadowbanned. I'm not sure why, probably for having a new account and getting quickly downvoted in this thread. (Admittedly you come across slightly strong, but... not outside of what I think is reasonable, so I dunno what's going on.)

I do recommend participating more in other threads and a little less in this thread, where you're repeating pretty much the same point over and over.