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    The document discusses the importance of ethics in research, noting that ethical standards promote truth, minimize error, encourage collaboration, ensure accountability to the public, and build public support for research by promoting values such as social responsibility and human and animal welfare.

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    The document discusses the importance of ethics in research, noting that ethical standards promote truth, minimize error, encourage collaboration, ensure accountability to the public, and build public support for research by promoting values such as social responsibility and human and animal welfare.

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    ETHICS OF RESEARCH

    What is Ethics in Research & Why is it important?

    When most people think of ethics (or morals), they think of rules for distinguishing between right and
    wrong, such as the Golden Rule ("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"), a code of professional
    conduct like the Hippocratic Oath ("First of all, do no harm"), a religious creed like the Ten Commandments ("Thou
    Shalt not kill..."), or a wise aphorisms like the sayings of Confucius. This is the most common way of defining
    "ethics": norms for conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior.

    There are several reasons why it is important to adhere to ethical norms in research:
    1. First, norms promote the aims of research, such as knowledge, truth, and avoidance of error. For example,
    prohibitions against fabricating, falsifying, or misrepresenting research data promote the truth and
    minimize error.
    2. Second, ethical standards promote the values that are essential to collaborative work, such as trust,
    accountability, mutual respect, and fairness. For example, many ethical norms in research, such as
    guidelines for authorship, copyright and patenting policies, data sharing policies, and confidentiality rules
    in peer review, are designed to protect intellectual property interests while encouraging collaboration.
    3. Third, many of the ethical norms help to ensure that researchers can be held accountable to the public. For
    instance, federal policies on research misconduct, conflicts of interest, the human subject’s protections, and
    animal care and use are necessary in order to make sure that researchers who are funded by public money
    can be held accountable to the public.
    4. Fourth, ethical norms in research also help to build public support for research. People are more likely to
    fund a research project if they can trust the quality and integrity of research.
    5. Finally, many of the norms of research promote a variety of other important moral and social values, such
    as social responsibility, human rights, animal welfare, compliance with the law, and public health and
    safety. Ethical lapses in research can significantly harm human and animal subjects, students, and the
    public. For example, a researcher who fabricates data in a clinical trial may harm or even kill patients and a
    researcher who fails to abide by regulations and guidelines relating to radiation or biological safety may
    jeopardize his health and safety or the health and safety of staff and students.

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