All Ethics articles
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FeatureFixing medicine’s gender gap
For centuries, the default subject in medicine research and training has been the male. Julia Robinson talks to the scientists and clinicians trying to improve things for the other 51% of humanity
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OpinionAre you fooling yourself?
Charles Piller’s Doctored and the reality of falsehoods in science
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OpinionSharing the burden of contraception could also mean sharing the risk
What if risk assessments for contraception considered the sum of risk to both members of a couple?
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OpinionThe moral theories behind climate deadlock
Why is it so controversial to do the right thing for the environment?
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NewsReview mills identified as a new form of peer-review fraud
Dozens of seemingly templated review reports show evidence of coercive citation
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NewsPublishing ethics committee warns of ‘problematic pollution’ of the scholarly record
Action required to tackle threat posed by paper mills
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NewsJustice for Henrietta Lacks as family reaches settlement with Thermo Fisher
Company was accused of profiting from HeLa cells derived from Lacks’ tumour without her family’s approval
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NewsStanford president resigns after independent review finds problems with his research
Marc Tessier-Lavigne cleared of fraud or falsification of data, but failures on correcting the scientific record made his position untenable
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OpinionLessons from Lieber
The prosecution of Charles Lieber has had a chilling effect on US researchers, leaving them uncertain about collaboration with overseas programmes
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OpinionScientific authorship in the time of ChatGPT
With AI-generated texts here to stay, we need to recognise that intellectual work is much more than just writing
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OpinionA new regulatory paradigm for increased robustness in chemical testing
Non-animal methods could revolutionise how we assess toxicity
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OpinionHuman genome editing in perspective
Ethical, cultural and safety considerations are high priorities for researchers
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OpinionTurning negative results into positives
Publishing unsuccessful experiments is more important than ever as we try to train machines in chemistry
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CareersEthical decisions in the workplace
Employees who feel secure should challenge unethical employers on behalf of their colleagues
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CareersThe chemists leaving their country over personal ethics
Family matters and political views are leading researchers to pursue careers abroad
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OpinionIt’s time to ban staff–student relationships
A policy of discouragement doesn’t go far enough towards tackling sexual misconduct
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NewsExplainer: The science of alkyl nitrites aka poppers
From their origins as 19th century angina treatment to becoming an important part of gay subculture, these recreational drugs exist in a legal limbo
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NewsApparent plagiarism leads Elsevier to retract periodic table book
Chemist contacted by suspicious Wikipedia editor finds that large sections were lifted from online encyclopaedia