SOCB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Informed Consent, Scientific Misconduct
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The studies that happened pre-1950s had a lot of ethical problems and the ethical requirements we see now were not even considered. In response to unethical studies like cia funded lsd studies on psychiatric patients in canada in the late 50s-60s. Professional issues such as fraudulent behaviour (producing inaccurate results unethical) and duplicate a publication (researcher to publish the same results in multiple journals unethical). Another reason why ethics matters is in regards to the treatment of researcher participants. Have to treat them with respect otherwise no one will participate ever again. The researcher knows more about the ethical procedures than the participant does, so they should provide as much info as they can to someone else. Should include any risks, how they can withdraw and whether or not a placebo is going to be used in the study. Sometimes these consent forms are not given if they"re just observing.
