Here is the link.
I don’t know how much of this article is a form of odd wishful thinking by the NY Times, or if the author is actually being somewhat critical of these “embedded scholars.”
Social scientists are presumably dedicated to deep principles. A few of them have put themselves in a position of service to the Army. The Army uses deadly force, for example, and such use of deadly force might violate their committment to such principles.
Like all of us, sociologists can be wrong in any idea they suggest to the military. It wouldn’t be good to be find out a village was wiped out (by another tribe, drug dealers, in a shootout, by an air force missile) in part because of good-faith suggestions a social scientist made that became Army action. Let fools have that kind of faith in their ideas.
Of course, these are just a few people, and this was just an article in the Times.
Addition: Ethics, right?
chr1
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