Motion condemning the FIU-SOUTHCOM "Strategic Culture" alliance http://quotha.net/node/1611

In and of itself, bad science is not an ethical violation; however, I would argue that bad science carried out on purpose and with the specific intent of providing academic legitimization for military strategies of counterinsurgency and destabilization that will result in untold violence toward and death among the people we study is, indeed, a grievous violation of the ethics of social science. The U.S. military has modified its strategy in response to the strong opposition from anthropologists and the people who suffer the effects of militarization; the FIU-SOUTHCOM alliance is not exactly the same as Project Camelot. Nonetheless, our Latin American colleagues have become increasingly outraged at what they see as the academic complicity in U.S. military attacks on democratic processes in their countries as represented by the FIU-SOUTHCOM alliance.