Ethics – Page 3
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FeatureEthics in chemistry
Nina Notman asks whether chemists should be giving more consideration to the ethics of their research
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News
Protein chemist barred from US government funding for a decade
Former University of Alabama researcher found guilty of falsifying x-ray crystallographic data more than 10 years after red flags first raised
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Careers
The ethics of scientific publishing
How to spot a problem paper – and what you should do about it
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News
Anonymous survey sheds light on research misconduct
Most academic and industrial scientists polled had either committed or witnessed unethical practices
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Podcast
Book Club - The angry chef
Do you crave a bigger slice of science in your dietary advice? Anthony Warner gets angry about bad science in the food sector
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Podcast
Book Club - A crack in creation
The development of Crispr, and the ethical questions raised by new genome editing techniques
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Podcast
Book Club - A course in deception
Academia has everything from altering results to murder, at least in this work of fiction
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Feature
The rising tide of 'legal highs'
Andy Extance investigates the chemistry that has helped recreational drugs evade the law, and its consequences
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News
Fake peer review hits RSC journals
Questions over true identity of recommended referees sees inorganic materials papers retracted from PCCP, Chemical Communications and Nanoscale
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Podcast
Book Club - Frankenstein
If you’re thinking of making a monster from dead body parts then this week’s book club podcast is for you
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Opinion
Time to act on conflict minerals
We must end the human cost of tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold
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News
21,500 cases dismissed due to forensic chemist’s misconduct
US court moves to dismiss thousands of criminal cases involving evidence handled by Annie Dookhan
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News
Research integrity report calls for change to flawed system
A US National Academies panel has proposed measures to help curb scientific misconduct
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News
Taking on chemistry's reproducibility problem
Efforts to get to grips with the problem have meant new ideas and technologies are now being brought to bear
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News
Fears that gene-editing cancer trials are premature
Warnings from geneticists that Crispr trial failures could knock promising technique’s prospects
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Opinion
Should we allow 'genetic vaccination' with Crispr?
Gene editing could wipe out diseases such as AIDS – but the risks can’t be ignored
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News
Integrity rules ‘well received’ by researchers
Progress report on concordat on research ethics broadly supportive of actions taken so far
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Careers
The security specialists
Kabrena Rodda and Laura Denlinger talk about training Iraqi scientists in chemical safety and security
