> To give some perspective, nowadays all PhD students generally take something called “Responsible Conduct of Research”. Unfortunately, I think that these sort

> To give some perspective, nowadays all PhD students generally take something called “Responsible Conduct of Research”. Unfortunately, I think that these sorts of classes mainly serve as either CYA or to check a box for a funder. Most of the folks who do unethical stuff (in general) either think that what they are specifically doing is not unethical, or they just don’t care (“playing the game” is something I’ve heard quite a bit). In certain fields, especially if you include anything that’s in a gray area of ethics, unethical behavior is more the norm than the exception.