HONORS 232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Agricultural Science
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The scienti c community expects strict adherence to ethical guidelines. More strict than federal or state laws however, are the guidelines created and used by scientists themselves. These rules were mainly intended to ensure high-quality and robust scienti c results. Consequentially, the science is performed in an ethical manner that is intrinsically bene cial to society. These rules may not have one uniform enforcing body aside from the law itself, but in many cases, failing to abide by them limits access to suf cient funding. Science changes over time as a re ection of the current state of the society that it serves. The general public also in uences the manner in which science and scienti c research is funded. Political and ethical beliefs that dissuade certain types of research will in effect, limit the amount of government funding that area of science will receive. Science also seems to follow what is most currently pressing.
