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March 04, 2004
The Seedy Underbelly of the Scientific Establishment
Okay, so maybe scientists aren't so all-fired great after all. A new report by the Comittee on Publishing Ethics provides a laundry list of ethical infractions by publishing scientists, ranging from plagiarism, to bribery, to... murder (okay, we made that last one up). Probably the worst offense came from the medical researchers who illicitly took blood samples from healthy babies to act as a control group in a study they were conducting.
Now, we realize we haven't weighed in on this issue before, so let us state our postion on the matter as plainly as possible: stealing blood from babies is wrong, and no one should ever do it (aren't you glad you've got greenideas to help you sort through these complicated ethical issues?).
Seriously though, you should at least check out the Nature article (linked below). It's almost funny how scary some of this stuff is (or is it almost scary how funny it is? No, it's the first one. Definitely the first one).
Also, if you like the mad scientist pic, it's from exploding dog, and there's plenty more where that came from.
"Scientists behaving badly" (Nature)
Posted by matt at March 4, 2004 03:12 PM
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