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Politicians are throwing billions of dollars at coronavirus vaccine trials, but the real cost of research is the one thing we’re lacking – time.
The government has breached the public’s trust and its own privacy policy by using Medicare data about Australians’ prescribing habits to recruit participants for a study.
In Australia, the next government will need to meet the challenge of refreshing the social licence between science, government and the many and diverse communities that make up our nation.
Medical research has a dark history of human experimentation in Nazi Germany. And we’re still uncovering the extent of the horrors.
Four months ago a researcher claimed he had used the tool CRISPR to edit the genomes of twin girls. Now prominent researchers and ethicists are calling for a temporary halt to this sort of work.
International standards ban publication of research that involves any biological material from executed prisoners, that lacks human research ethics committee approval and that lacks consent of donors.
A pragmatic approach rather than active concealment is to blame for China’s lack of research transparency.
Researchers who fly in and out of a developing country only for research samples, with little involvement of local scientists, are practising helicopter research.
Money always seems tight for university scientists. A sociologist conducted hundreds of interviews to see how they think about funding sources and profit motives for basic and applied research.
Science can’t just stay in the ivory tower. But what does impact really mean and how does it happen? A study of more than a decade of ecological fieldwork projects in Bolivia suggests a better way.
Ethical review is often seen as a barrier to research and innovation within universities, but it can be constructive. More attention should be paid to the potential benefits of the process.
The upcoming census, like many before it, will boil complex information on race, ethnicity and ancestry into just two questions. That leaves a lot of important information out of the data.
Researchers funded by VW, Daimler and BMW are accused of testing diesel fumes on monkeys and humans.
The ethical mindfield of AI gaydar.
A recent survey about sexual assault on university campuses was criticised as being unethical. So what is the right way to go about conducting such research?
Three stories about researchers who have dabbled in self-experimentation – with varying results.
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Is the risk of a criminal conviction enough to deter scientists from publishing bogus research findings?
Controversy over a Chinese study that used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology shows how the West still looks at the East through the lens of Orientalism.
Embracing more rigorous scientific methods would mean getting science right more often than we currently do. But the way we value and reward scientists makes this a challenge.
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Adjunct professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, School of Economics, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, St George's, University of London
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Professor of Research Ethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, School of Arts and Media, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Professionalism, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor of Law, Bond University
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Professor of Ethics, Keele University
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Deputy Director (Research) Peter Underwood Centre, University of Tasmania
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The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Marine Science & Founder/Director of Blue Carbon Lab, Deakin University
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Professor of War and Technology, University of Bath
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Distinguished Journalist In Residence, Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, Retraction Watch