SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, Institutional Review Board, Legal Guardian
13 Oct 2012
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Ethics include the concerns, dilemmas, and conflicts that arise over the proper way to conduct research. Ethics help to define what is or is not legitimate to do, or what moral research procedure involves. Must balance the pursuit of knowledge and the rights of research participants or other in society. Must also balance potential benefits against potential costs. Scientific misconduct: occurs when a researcher falsifies or distorts the data or the methods of data collection, or plagiarizes the work of others. It also includes significant, unjustified departures from the generally accepted scientific practices for doing and reporting on research. Research fraud: occurs when a researcher fakes or invents data that he or she did not really collect, or fails to honestly and fully report how he or she conducted a study. Plagiarism: occurs when a researcher steals the ideas of writings of another or uses them without citing the source.
