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- Financial Interests and Research Bias
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Authors: Resnik, David B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on Science
Abstract: Concern is rising among scientists, government officials and science policy experts about the increasing role of financial interests in research. Many believe that these interests are undermining research by causing bias and error, ...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1162/106361400750340497Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-12-06 10:56
- Evaluating solutions to sponsorship bias
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Authors: Sismondo, S ; Doucet, M
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Medical Ethics
Abstract: Three proposed remedies to this problem are widely agreed upon among those concerned with the level of sponsorship bias: financial disclosure, reporting standards and trial registries. This paper argues that all of these remedies ei...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2007.022467Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-12-06 10:50
- Suppression, Bias, and Selection in Science: The Case of Cancer Research
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Authors: Hess, David J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Examines the suppression and bias in the role of bacterial agents in cancer etiology. Suppression of the bacterial research tradition; Suppression incidents in the United States during the decades following World War II; Two forms o...
Year: 1999
DOI: 10.1080/08989629908573932Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-25 17:55
- Those Who Have the Gold Make the Evidence: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Biases the Outcomes of Clinical Trials of Medications
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Authors: Lexchin, Joel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Pharmaceutical companies fund the bulk of clinical research that is carried out on medications. Poor outcomes from these studies can have negative effects on sales of medicines. Previous research has shown that company funded resear...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-011-9265-3Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-07-09 11:26
- Ethics Case Studies - Teacher Edition
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Authors: Doss, Heide ; Popkin, Gabriel ; American Physical Society, Task Force on Ethics Education
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This guide includes a set of case studies from physics research, each of which includes an activity and discussion guide for courses and seminars in science ethics....
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.aps.org/programs/education/ethics/upload/Ethics-Case-Studies-Teacher-Edition.pdfBiblio - KBL781 - 2012-06-05 11:50
- Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education and Practice
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Publication Type: Report
Abstract: This report from the U.S. Institute of Medicine's Committee on Conflict of Interest in medical Research, Education and Practice examines conflicts of interest in medicine and recommends steps to identify, limit, and manage conflicts...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2009/Conflict-of-Interest-in-Medical-Research-Education-and-Practice.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-04-26 10:05
- All in the Interpretation
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Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center ; Raghavan, Simil
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A case study in which a graduate student wrestles with uncomfortable decisions in trying to interpret her research results. She struggles to make un-biased judgments and interact appropriately with the press....
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/Interpretation.aspxBiblio - Anonymous - 2011-09-27 10:30
- Ethics Case Studies - Student Edition
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Authors: Doss, Heide ; Popkin, Gabriel ; American Physical Society, Task Force on Ethics Education
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This guide includes a set of case studies from physics research with an activity and discussion guide for courses and seminars in science ethics....
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.aps.org/programs/education/ethics/upload/Ethics-Case-Studies-Student-Edition.pdfBiblio - KBL781 - 2012-06-05 11:59
- The Responsible Researcher: Paths and Pitfalls
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Authors: Ahearne, John F.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book provides an overview of major ethical issues and pressures that students, graduate students, postdoctoral students, junior and senior faculty often face through their careers and some recommendations on how to responsibly ...
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/ethics/ResResearcher.pdfBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-11-11 10:45
- Testing Junior
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The New York Times recently reported on scientists who include members of their own families in their research projects. Some performed MRI scans, some recorded their children's every word, others used their experience as parents a...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Testing%20Junior.pdfBiblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-09 12:10
- The Importance of the Preservation of the Ethical Principle of Equipoise in the Design of Clinical Trials: Relative Impact of the Methodological Quality Domains on the Treatment Effect in Randomized Controlled Trials
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Authors: Djulbegovic, Benjamin ; Cantor, Alan ; Clarke, Mike
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Previous research has identified methodological problems in the design and conduct of randomized trials that could, if left unaddressed, lead to biased results. In this report the authors the problem of inadequate control interventi...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1080/08989620390267092Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-25 17:45
- Power for the People
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Authors: Timberlake, William
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Professor A proposes to test the theory that black male criminals suffer from early childhood deprivation of attention by the male parent by comparing interviews of black male ex-convicts with men that have never been convicted of a...
Year: 1995
URL: http://www.emhr.net/index.php?mact=casestudies,cntnt01,default,0&cntnt01what=studie&cntnt01alias=Power-for-the-People&cntnt01returnid=64Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-11-19 14:07
- The Price of Truth: How Money Affects the Norms of Science
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Authors: Resnik, David B.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Practical and professional ethics series
Abstract: In The Price of Truth, David B. Resnik examines some of the important and difficult questions resulting from the financial and economic aspects of modern science. How does money affect scientific research? Have scientists become ent...
Year: 2007Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-10 14:36

