With proper checks and balances and strong
ethical oversight in place, most would be more inclined to follow and uphold the law.
If you intend to publish your research in a peer - reviewed scientific journal, you are expected to have conducted that research with the
appropriate ethical oversight.
Bolland's team also found multiple examples of inconsistencies between and within trials, errors in reported data, misleading text, duplicated data and text as well as uncertainties
about ethical oversight.
However, he also faults the Karolinska Institute for failing to anticipate that Macchiarini's surgeries would need
clear ethical oversight and the co-authors for signing off on papers that were inaccurate.
As an international quartet of digital disease detection researchers wrote recently in PLoS Computational Biology: «Current regulatory and
ethical oversight mechanisms are ill - equipped to address the entire spectrum of [digital disease detection]- type activities.»
An inferred message from the discussion on promoting responsible conduct and
ethical oversight is that it is in researchers» best interests to make sure they are fully aware of publication guidelines and research ethics.
Equally serious was Shorvon's failure to inform
the ethical oversight committee and the patients themselves that participation would require them not only to donate blood but also to briefly halt their medication and undergo extensive tests.
Last year Congress issued a moral call to action when it ordered the National Institutes of Health to reevaluate
its ethical oversight of government - funded primate research.
Earlier this year, The Lancet published a commentary from Macchiarini, defending
the ethical oversight in the paper, after reports that the man it described died — and, according to a 2014 story in the New York Times, signed a consent form dated two weeks after the procedure.
This will permit others, with appropriate medical training and
ethical oversight, to research the effects of infrasound on humans.»