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Yes, it is. It's an ethical problem because making researchers sift through more crap just so that you can pad up your CV is slowing down further research into
by weland 13y ago
Yes, it is. It's an ethical problem because making researchers sift through more crap just so that you can pad up your CV is slowing down further research into your field.
I know it's an oversimplification, but the essence of it is true: curing cancer is already hard enough. It shouldn't be made any harder by ambitiously exceeding your dead tree quota.
Sauce: abandoned an academic career :-)
- joe_the_user 13y agoUh, by the token, a badly designed desk which makes things harder for researchers is an ethical problem. I wouldn't minimize the problematic quality of having a bunch of crap in research or what-all else. But the thing is that, as you know, the academic world puts extreme pressure on people to both follow the rules and to makes themselves look good. When any violation of a rule-set can be called an "ethical violation" when it's really not that, it cheapens the whole concept of ethics. Which isn't surprising given how monumentally unethical it is to set up system. Essentially, I can't help seeing people with a lot of power engaging in seriously unethetical things and happy to blur the lines between that and people cuts corners in response to pressure (and that stuff winds up being more pressure on people which doesn't actually stop the corner-cutting).
- aidenn0 13y agoI would say intentionally designing a desk that is uncomfortable and will slow people down, and then passing it off as comfortable is unethical
- joe_the_user 13y agoParse the sentence above in the context of being a reply to another post, darn it.