Following on from the post ↓down there↓ about the publication of potentially dangerous results, and as if by magic, into my inbox comes a cfp from the journal Medicine Studies for a special edition about responsibility in biomedical practices. Details are below the fold. […]
Category: Research Ethics
Scientific Publicity and the Dilemmas of Publication
There’s a short interview with David Nichols in last week’s New Scientist in which he talks about his place in the history of the production of “legal highs”. The backstory is that he was doing work on MDMA (ecstasy) with half an eye on using it in the treatment of psychiatric and neurological conditions. […]
Procedural Proportionality of Ethical Review
By David Hunter In an excellent paper published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics Gefenas et al make the point that types of research which impose similar burdens of risks and harms appear to be being regulated disproportionately at the moment in the Baltic States. […]