Reed's Institutional Review Board (IRB) will use documentary film as an opportunity to discuss questions of ethics and oversight in the context of science, scholarship, and technology, spanning over 100 years of history. Each evening, we hold a screening, followed by a followed by a formal discussion of the film's themes and relevant IRB and/or IACUC considerations.

January 19th: Coded Bias (2020). What impact does the data used to train algorithms have on users? What are the consequences for society when these algorithms are released commercially without addressing their hidden biases? Topics include AI, civil rights, policing, and regulatory oversight.

January 20th: The Century of the Self (2002). We will watch episodes 2 and 3 of this series, which considers various impacts of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis on marketing, politics, and propaganda, relying heavily on both interviews and on archival footage. Episode 2 discusses the "engineering of consent" in the post-war era, while episode 3 examines the role of these ideas in 20th-century counterculture and in the human potential movement.

January 21st: Nuts! (2016). Unethical charlatans claiming to practice medicine are as old as the medical profession itself. However, while sketchy health influencers feel like a modern problem, they have been with us since the birth of mass media. This documentary charts the rise and fall of one such charlatan, a pioneer of the early radio era. Topics include medical fraud, social proof, and quite a few more goat testicles than you might expect