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Ethics and Practice of Modern Science
Ethics and Practice of Modern Science
modern science
Feb 1st 2022, Lecture 5
Rama Akondy
Ethics in conducting research.
Genetic memory in assassin’s creed; Rick and Morty (endangering a minor); Arnim Zola and Bucky;
Human centipede; Jurassic Park
Why make a virus? How influenza viruses mutate to become transmissible in humans is not
known. Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands and Yoshihiro Kawaoka
of University of Wisconsin independently set out to discover how H5N1 mutates. They
reasoned that it'd be better to gain knowledge for its prevention in a controlled
environment.
Responsible conduct of research
• Conflict of interest. Identify, mitigate and manage
• Data acquisition sharing and management
• Registering clinical trials with the Clinical Trials registry of India.
Responsible reporting of research
• Plagiarism
• Deliberate data manipulation
• Inadvertent errors
• Transparency