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Journals don't establish the validity of results. That's established by the community through things like replication and building on top of the results. If you
by daveFNbuck 8y ago
Journals don't establish the validity of results. That's established by the community through things like replication and building on top of the results. If you don't abide by ethical standards, the community won't validate your work.
- scarejunba 8y agoAre there factions in the community who will replicate and build on top but not consider the ethics of how you treat the subjects of your research? Considering that the community is global across different cultures and regions it would be unusual if the principles were the same for what is ethical to do to your subjects, even if everyone agrees on what is ethical for the epistemology.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoYou seem to have two different questions here. The first is about whether there are people who don't won't consider ethics when doing their research. I'm sure there are such people, but they still need funding and other support that they'll lose if they don't follow the ethics guidelines of their institution and/or laws of their country. The scientist who recently announced the birth of genetically modified babies is a particularly strong example of these consequences. Your second question is about different ethical standards across the globe. You don't need a journal that completely ignores ethics to support people a global community working under different ethical systems. You either need a journal that accepts submissions that passed local ethical review or a locally-run journal that abides by the ethics of its locality.