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4. Professional Ethics

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4. Professional Ethics. Most parts of this talk are borrowed from: “ On being a scientist: responsible conduct in research ” National Academy of Sciences. What is ethics all about?. Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary. What is ethics all about?.

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  1. 4. Professional Ethics Most parts of this talk are borrowed from: “On being a scientist: responsible conduct in research” National Academy of Sciences

  2. What is ethics all about? Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

  3. What is ethics all about? • Ethics deals with the answer to the questions • What ought I to do? • How ought I to live? • There are multiple answers • Depend on the ethical system/tradition • Deontological ethics • Utilitarian ethics • It is a vast field • A companion to ethics, 1993, Edited by Peter Singer

  4. Distribution of ethics violation categories (APS)

  5. Goal of this talk • Identify ethical issues on scientific environment • Learn what to do when these situations arise • Methodology • discuss a few ethical situations

  6. Is science independent of values?

  7. Error and negligence • What to do with “honest mistakes”? • What about systematic negligence? • Learn more • Fallacies in astronomy and medicine, by Edwin E Salpeter, Rep. Prog. Phys. 68 (2005) 2747 • Adriaan Van Maanen versus Edwin Hubble on the distance of “spiral nebulae” (galaxies)

  8. Misconduct • Data fabrication/misreporting • Plagiarism • Double funding

  9. Misconduct • “Submitted” papers

  10. Conflict of Interest • Definition • Individual has interest in the object (grant application, proposal, paper) under review that will bias his opinion.

  11. Publication and openness • Published papers can be freely used provided they are cited • What about if a paper doesn’t cite you? • What about if you ask data from a published paper and the author refuses?

  12. Publication and openness • What about work in progress? • It is important to discuss with others • But you might end up “robbed” • What about one versus many papers on a subject? When does salami regime applies?

  13. Authorship practices • Who should sign the paper? • Honorary authorship • What should be the order of authors? • Information flow within authors

  14. Responding to violations of ethical standards • Can you discuss the situation with the individual? • Discuss the situation with a trusted friend/colleague • Has your laboratory/university ethic support? • Complaining verbally or in written

  15. The Scientist in the society • Is your research in a given moment relevant for the public affairs? • Giving something back – outreach • Responsible outreach

  16. How to improve • Read some papers • On being a scientist: responsible conduct in research, National Academy of Sciences www.nap.edu/html/obas/ • Responsible Science, National Academy of Sciences, www.nap.edu/catalog/1864.htm • The responsible researcher: paths and pitfalls, 1999, Edited by Sigma Xi www.sigmaxi.org/programs/ethics/ResResearcher.pdf • Discuss ethical situations with colleagues you respect • Learn how to protect yourself from unethical behavior • Learn how to act when facing unethical behavior

  17. Thank you!