All Ethics articles – Page 4
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Feature
Ethics 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
#UsToo movement targets sexual harassment in science
US scientific societies rewrite policies to clamp down on sexual harassment
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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
The Angry Chef by Anthony Warner – Book club
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
A Crack in Creation by Jennifer Doudna – Book club
The development of Crispr, and the ethical questions raised by new genome editing techniques
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Review
Sex, lies, and brain scans: how fMRI reveals what really goes on in our minds
Can neuroscientists can use functional magnetic resonance imaging to read minds?
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Podcast
A Course in Deception by Jane Rieger – Book club
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
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus – Book club
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
Women going for professor thwarted by female interviewers
Study finds female assessors on tenure committees less likely to appoint women than all-male panels
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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