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haspelmath
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DoD and DARPA funding
Jul 21 2009, 12:56 AM EDT | Post edited: Jul 21 2009, 12:56 AM EDT
The outline of the preliminary report mentions "DARPA" and "DoD" as possible funding sources. Since the U.S. Department of "Defense" has been responsible for some of the world's worst criminal violence over the last decade, I consider it morally unacceptable to collaborate with it, and I think scientists should dissociate themselves from this organization. In fact, the recommendation is in direct conflict with the recently published LSA Ethics Statement ("Linguists should do everything in their power to ensure that their research poses no threat to the well-
being of research participants." Selling research on languages -- Pashto was mentioned during the discussion on Sunday -- to the DoD may pose a direct threat to the speech community.).

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