Why are principles of science and the ethical guidelines for science so important to research?

Answer 1

This sounds like a homework question...

Anyway, scientist's job is to create new information and publish it for others to use. If there is misconduct (false information, etc.) then others waste time trying to recreate the results, or others follow that work and waste even more time on flawed ideas.

Also, in science, research is funded by the government. So if you're doing unethical research, you're screwing the taxpayer.

Further, in some fields you conduct research on human or animal subjects, in which case ethical misconduct is very serious as life can be harmed.

Finally, there is danger if you're researching a weapon or other device (like a virus) that could get loose and harm people.

Answer 2

Pure research depends on and builds upon reliable results of previous works. Standing on the shoulders of giants to see farther.

Unfortunately, resources are tight and researcher are under commercial pressure to publish or perish. And there is a lot of BS science out there. Vetting all that makes progress very slow - or worse can deliberately misguide to waste someone's time.

Science has no moral high ground compared to other human endeavors - but it would be nice to be able to use the "principles" to focus on progress rather than police the domain.

Answer 3

Personally I think that ethical guidelines may get in the way of some questionable research. For example I would like to see more experiments involving gene splicing and cloning as I think the results may justify the means.

Answer 4

Science seeks to prove concepts and theory through repeative reproducable testing and results.

It's also what gives us answers to the previously unknown.

Ethics keep scientist from using animals, humans and other living creatures from intentional cruel harm to prove and test these theories except under a strict rule base such as animal drug testing etc.

Think about history and what some doctors during the second world war were reported to have done to prisioners.

Medical science moved forward by leaps and bounds but at what cost to humanity as a whole to gain the knowledge through sufferring?

Answer 5

i might choose for sure. I relatively have study the object via ways. if that they had relatively got here across some thing like a maximum cancers therapy which might help one thousand million human beings, i might say : use it. i don't be afflicted by any detrimental ailment, or any for that remember yet i will think of if I had some thing like MS or Tourette syndrome or regardless of and my existence grow to be hell : i might take the medecine they got here upon. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that ethical or unethical it would have been gained interior the 1st place, if it would help million greater human beings......why no longer. (my opinion). of direction, a remember that may't truthfully evaluate with the Nazi's lab test.....yet think of of all the individuals screaming on behalf of animals' real and yet placed on leather-based boots and coats, handbags ?? All those splendor creams, products, fairly some medecines that have been examined on animals. Am repeating lower back : this does not evaluate with the suffering of human beings of direction. Makes me think of additionally of all the debate of stem cells experiments........

Answer 6

Because you have to know the boundaries of each of them. When research is no longer research and just cruelty to animals and playing god with DNA and the human spirit. You can usually tell where the line is drawn in your soul / consciousness

Answer 7

testing products on humans before they are sure it is safe is very dangerous to the propel, and it is immoral to put the people through that...ethics are a rare treat that we humans get to enjoy

Answer 8

because we as human begins must remember not to play god with our self's or with other people that is why we need guidelines to keep us in check.

Answer 9

You have to know the rules of the game just as you can't play baseball if don't know the rules of baseball.

Answer 10

I can take you prisoner and put gunshot wounds in you so emergency room surgeons can practice on you and then you can answer that question yourself.