When one thinks of ethics, they define it as a norm of conduct that separates acceptable behavior versus non-acceptable which develops through life as one matures by experiencing different life events that shape their moral development. So why is their so many ethical disputes in our society? One might interpret ethical norms differently by their own values and life experiences that might be morally wrong in another person's view. (Resnik)
Ethics is necessary in research because it is the basis of promotion. Research is aimed to promote the knowledge, truth and avoid error of the data collected. The ethical norms in research is there to protect the researcher from discredit and copyright issues through guidelines and policies in peer review, copyright, patenting, and data sharing. Another ethical norm is from the publicity of the research; there are federal policies that protect research misconduct to help insure the government funded researchers are accountable for moral and social values. (Resnik)
Example of an ethical case in our society:
There is a court cases are revealing hidden fraud by corporations manipulating scientific results about their products. The victims are apparently pointing out that the corporations are undermining the scientific credibility that can be harmful to the users. One of the cases involves Georgia – Pacific, which forced over their internal paper works. They are suggesting that this company altered its scientific knowledge about the health effects of asbestos. Georgia-Pacific hired experts to write the articles about the effects of asbestos but the articles suggested the undervalued cancer risk. The experts who had conflict with this enlightenment posed a serious issue when publishing a scientific article that delivered incorrect information about this toxic chemical. (Shulman)
Ethics is necessary in research because it is the basis of promotion. Research is aimed to promote the knowledge, truth and avoid error of the data collected. The ethical norms in research is there to protect the researcher from discredit and copyright issues through guidelines and policies in peer review, copyright, patenting, and data sharing. Another ethical norm is from the publicity of the research; there are federal policies that protect research misconduct to help insure the government funded researchers are accountable for moral and social values. (Resnik)
Example of an ethical case in our society:
There is a court cases are revealing hidden fraud by corporations manipulating scientific results about their products. The victims are apparently pointing out that the corporations are undermining the scientific credibility that can be harmful to the users. One of the cases involves Georgia – Pacific, which forced over their internal paper works. They are suggesting that this company altered its scientific knowledge about the health effects of asbestos. Georgia-Pacific hired experts to write the articles about the effects of asbestos but the articles suggested the undervalued cancer risk. The experts who had conflict with this enlightenment posed a serious issue when publishing a scientific article that delivered incorrect information about this toxic chemical. (Shulman)