Best Research Ethics Quotes

"Dodgeball is a tool of oppression used to dehumanize others, researchers argue. I think they should probably lose their jobs, not because I hate them, not because I give a damn about them in any way, shape, or form. It's because this is a conclusion so ridiculous, I do not think they are qualified for the work that they are supposed to be doing."

"The anonymized participant level data underlying the trials for these new products remains inaccessible to doctors, researchers, and the public. This is morally indefensible."

"Exploring the past, questioning the Paradigm is what research is about. That is what science is."

"I think at minimum there should be a stop on the gain-of-function work."

"Is this intellectual inquiry or is it bio weapon research?"

"Science at its core, at its aim, should be independent and objective."

"There have to be what we call institutional review boards, a fancy way of saying review committees that have to review every single study that is done in this country."

"Critics speculate that researchers like Dazic have a financial interest in keeping the potential source of this virus hidden."

"You don't want to do research just for the sake of getting a PhD or making money."

"What the scientists are wanting is a body. People that are studying Bigfoots and research Bigfoot, they are totally against killing one and I don't see why you would want to."

"This is a massive Scandal... all of the United States needs to know what was going on in that lab."

"There is no forbidden knowledge if you pursue any research question with the full honesty that is mandated by the scientific method."

"If non-proliferation of unnecessarily risky research is a goal, it's critical for the US government to engender trust, both among American citizens and our allies abroad, through transparency."

"Both urgently need further investigation, and both suggest future dangers."

"Imagine trying to get that past an ethics committee today."

"The thinking is rooted in something that's very legitimate, which is that you don't want people making or publishing their own original research."

"The arrogance of Dr. Fauci and pretending he wasn't doing something in terms of funding and function research when in fact he was, those are pretty important issues."

"I spent more than 50 years in the diet and health research and policy communities using taxpayer money. My only motive at this time of my life is to tell taxpayers who generously supported our work what we did with their money." - Dr. Campbell

"But for both legal and ethical reasons, we’re moving away from using primates for research."

"Science is about skepticism, openness, communication, all that stuff."

"Approval the protocol by the local institutional review board is essential."

"It's much better to admit a mistake than to hide it in science."

"We shouldn't stigmatize psychedelic research neither should we romanticize it."

"If there are concerns from an IRB, from the FDA, from the Data Safety and Monitoring Board, from the investigators themselves, a study can be stopped at any time and unblinded for any unanticipated reason."

"I believe the biggest problem there is not actually research, it's ethics. There I think we will hit a big wall."

"...researchers are changing the cutoffs while they're analyzing their data to give them the best results."

"It's clear that the writer didn't bother to do proper research before writing."

"You have to go through ethical standards to make sure your research is legitimate as well."

"It's slowly becoming more desirable, more incentivized to try to actually do good science and not just get your papers published."

"Know the difference between methods and ethics: how do we study versus should we study."

"The Belmont report provides three ethical principles of human subject research."

"I am all about running some home studies on family members, but I think for the time being, the kids need to stay where they're at."

"Objectivity is when research is free from a researcher's personal values and beliefs."

"Violating the expectation of validity and reliability is a fatal violation."

"The benefits must outweigh the risks for any study."

"Ethical implications is an issue in psychological research because we use people and when we use people we have to think about how the research is going to impact that person."

"Ethics refers to whether research is morally right or wrong."

"Ethics is the principle that guides morally correct behavior and the research you are supposed to undertake must be done through a certain norm."

"Scientists do not compromise. Our minds are tuned to the truth."

"Those of us that are doing research shouldn't submit or cite journals that don't make code and data available."

"Socially sensitive research... has a potential social consequence for not just the participants but the group of people that may be represented by the particular piece of research."

"We take patient privacy really seriously; it's our number one concern when we're conducting these studies."

"We have a number of obligations to make this research ethical."