Timeline for If someone conducts unethical research unbeknownst to anybody, but produces positive results, what would happen to the research once discovered?
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| Nov 6, 2014 at 9:48 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | @cbeleites I meant situation where you are unable to publish it anywhere. Sure, if something is OK in China but not in most of world, then a research track likely won't be ignored. But without being able to publish it may be difficult to build reputation (sic), interest, credibility etc. And (as you know) research is rarely done by "one paper". There are examples of other findings, where people had problems to publish (even for not ethically-related things) and it delayed spread of some idea by decades (most notably: Bell inequality); a single paper may be not enough to start. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 20:18 | comment | added | cbeleites | (not a downvoter), but I think it unlikely that the results are discarded. Maybe they'd be banned in the blatant situation in the question. But considering more everyday ethics, for example Germany has far more restrictive rules about stem cell research (AFAIK it is basically forbidden to produce embryonic stem cells) than, say, the UK. Nevertheless, I don't see any evidence that results obtained by research on embryonic stem cells somewhere else in the world is ignored in Germany. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 16:56 | comment | added | Taladris | "Third, many people can think that if you are OK with one breach of ethics, you may be OK with breach of scientific procedures". It depends on your character: a common trope in fictions (TV, movies, comics,...) is the scientific that sacrifices/ignores its ethic in his quest for knowledge. People may acknowledge that you are a "pure" scientist. | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 16:48 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | Am I getting downvotes for not providing value or for the very emotionally-induced oversensitivity I was talking about? In particular, what is wrong with my points 1-3? | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 10:40 | history | edited | Piotr Migdal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2014 at 10:29 | history | answered | Piotr Migdal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |