Ethics in Research

A branch of Philosophy that deals with the rightness and wrongness of things.

• Ethics

• Epistemology

• Physics

• Religion

Ethics today can change tomorrow based on the social constructs being created to battle the old norms.

• True

• False

Tommy was assigned as the leader of their research group. He volunteered to do the Introduction of the study boasting that it was the easiest part. When the presentation day comes Tommy cannot explain the contents of his work, because he copied every part of it from the internet. The Research adviser asked him where did he get all of those and he said he formulated it all by himself without the help of his groupmates. What Research principle did Tommy set aside?

• Carefulness

• Intellectual Honesty

• Social and Legal responsibility

Jade is a very intelligent student. He always make sure that his work is perfectly done. On his first submission of the Research Title the Thesis teacher rejected his proposal. Jade left the class meeting and posted rants about his teacher. What Research Principle does lack?

• Openness

• Integrity

• Carefulness

The researchers would like to test see if dogs have larger intestines than pigs. They decided to find live animals and took them to the lab and do the experiment without permission from the Philippine Animal Welfare group. What is the best way they could've done the experiment?

• They could reduce the test subjects into one species each.

• They could consider refining and using anesthesia for both animals before dissecting them.

• They could replace the animals with other test subjects.

• They could refer to already established research regarding the comparison.