Researchers should be free to pursue lines of inquiry and the communication of knowledge and ideas without fear of repression or censorship. At the same time, they have the ethical obligation to ...

At the University of Geneva (UNIGE), any ethical approach described below must comply with the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct drawn up by the Ethics and Professional Conduct Committee which ...

Social science researchers engaged in primary data collection often consider a range of ethical issues during the planning of their research, but such considerations are rarely articulated upfront or ...

What is a research ethics amendment? A research ethics amendment is a process used to document a change to a research ethics application that has already been reviewed and has received a favourable ...

Pueblo Bonito, a massive stone great house in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico Andrew Kearns via Flickr Under CC BY-SA 2.0 The 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has brought fresh attention to ...

The US Office of Research Integrity defines research misconduct as “fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results.” But ...

A new advisory board, created to review the ethics of proposed fetal tissue research grants, is urging the Trump administration to block government funding for nearly all of the applications — ...