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Ethics

Ethics. What is ethics ? Is it for ethicists only ? How does it intersect with P&A ? Ethics vs. professionalism Small everyday issues vs. sensational issues The positive vs. negative approach to ethics It’s not (so much) the crime , it’s the cover-up!.

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Ethics

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  1. Ethics • What is ethics? • Is it for ethicists only? How does it intersect with P&A? • Ethics vs. professionalism • Small everyday issues vs. sensational issues • Thepositive vs. negative approach to ethics • It’s not (so much) the crime, it’s the cover-up!

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

  3. (Famous) Physics Ethical Dilemmasfrom the 20th century… Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn and nuclear fission Maria Goeppert-Mayer and anti-nepotism Heisenberg and the 3rd Reich Einstein and the nuclear bomb, WWII, The 1939 letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Roosevelt can be found at http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html Oppenheimer’s security clearance hearings Cold war, nuclear testing, nuclear fall-out, …

  4. 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-Hendrik Schönand Victor Ninov fraud cases Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hendrik_Sch%C3%B6n http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ninov German defense minister resigns (2011): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12611570 David Goodstein on Scientific Fraud: http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201006/backpage.cfm

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

  6. Resources • ACM, Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics • ACS The Chemist’s Code of Conduct http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1095&content_id=CNBP_023290&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=d0a0b60d-4a02-45b1-98d7-2b0313b3ecc5 • 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://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html • NAP On being a scientist – responsible conduct in research http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4917 • Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society The Responsible Researcher: Paths and Pitfalls http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/ethics/ResResearcher.pdf “Ask the Ethicist” column in APS News http://www.aps.org/apsnews/ → your peers, mentors, and colleagues…

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

  8. Case studies (pick one) A career in the balance (p.19) A case of plagiarism (p.18) A conflict of interest(p.8) Credit where credit is due (p.12) Fabrication in a grant application (p.17) Industrial sponsorship of academic research (p.9) Publication practices (p.15) The selection of data (p.5) The sharing of research materials (p.11)

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