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Section One: Ethical Issues in Research

CASE STUDY: Expedience, Misrepresentation, or Falsification?

Repeat the experiment (at a cost of approximately 6 months, 300 animals, and $40,000).

Repeating the experiment is an ethically permitted and ethically encouraged approach. One of the role related responsibilities of scientists is to achieve accurate reproducible results. Whatever the reasons, unless the experiment is repeated, Dr. Leyos cannot attest that the results are accurate or reproducible.

However, the grant that funded this project did not budget for repeat of the experiment. So while Dr. Leyos wants to repeat the experiment, he must now decide among a number of courses of action.

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Take $40,000 already approved by the funding agency to support a post-doctoral student and use that money to cover the additional experiment.

Apply for other funding to repeat the experiment. In the proposal, Dr. Leyos explains that the results are currently just shy of statistical significance, but does not give details about the earlier problems.

Explain the problems that have occurred to the funders and request additional funds to support the testing required for statistical significance.

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