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Ethics Mon 3/9/11 Jean-Francois Van Huele

Ethics Mon 3/9/11 Jean-Francois Van Huele. Any questions about 416?. Learning Objectives for 416 Wed 3/9/11. Homework submissions? Interviews? Presentations (SRC)? Ethics Motivation A few facts Sources Case studies  A nd participation from everybody! .

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Ethics Mon 3/9/11 Jean-Francois Van Huele

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  1. EthicsMon 3/9/11Jean-Francois Van Huele Any questions about 416?

  2. Learning Objectives for 416 Wed 3/9/11 • Homework submissions? • Interviews? • Presentations (SRC)? Ethics • Motivation • A few facts • Sources • Case studies  And participation from everybody! 

  3. What is Ethics? (A few hints) • Is ethics for ethicists? Intersection of ethics with P&A? • Ethics vs. professionalism • Small everyday issues vs. sensational issues • Thenegative vs. positive approach to ethics • It’s not (so much) the crime, it’s the cover-up!

  4. Ethics Readings (Physics Today 2004) • Ethics and the Welfare of the Physics Profession • What is the message? • What new? interesting? • Trust and the Future of Research • What is the message? • What new? interesting? • The Scientist Code of Ethics • What is the message? • What new? interesting?

  5. (Famous) Physics Ethical Dilemmas • Nuclear Weapons, WW II Heisenberg and the 3rd Reich Einstein and the Nuclear bomb The 1939 letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Roosevelt can be found at http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html • “Ask the Ethicist” column in APS News http://www.aps.org/apsnews/

  6. In the News...(unfortunately) On the Hwang Woo-suk story. The New York Times online has several articles http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/hwang_woo_suk/?inline=nyt-per On Jan-HendrikSchon and Victor Ninov fraud cases Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Physics Today, http://www.physicstoday.org/

  7. In the News...(Today) • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12611570 • http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/education/07iht-educLede.html • http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/03/08/Ohio-professor-settles-plagiarism-lawsuit/UPI-42401299645603/

  8. Ethical issues you may encounter… • Data Reproducibility • Deadlines • Negative Results • Recommendations • Referencing • (Self-)Plagiarism • Cut and Paste, Wikipedia • … • what else?

  9. Resources • AAAS, Professional Ethics Report http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/pers/per.htm • ACM, Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct http://info.acm.org/constitution/code.html • ACS The Chemist’s Code of Conduct http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/l/acsdisplay.html?DOC=membership%5Cconduct.html • AMS Ethical guidelines http://www.ams.org/secretary/ethics.html • APS Statements http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/index.cfm • IEEE Code of Ethics http://policy.rutgers.edu/andrews/projects/ssit/ethics.shtml • NAP On being a scientist – responsible conduct in research http://stills.nap.edu/html/obas/ascii.txt • Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society The Responsible Researcher: Paths and Pitfalls

  10. Case studies (pick one) A career in the balance A case of plagiarism A conflict of interest Credit where credit is due Fabrication in a grant application Industrial sponsorship of academic research Publication practices The selection of data The sharing of research materials

  11. Case Studies… Form groups of 2 (or 3) Agree on one case study Read the case study and Formulate your answers (in writing) Present to class

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