Ethical frameworks are detrimental to Scientific Study because Science is by nature unethical.
Ethical frameworks are detrimental to Scientific Study because Science is by nature unethical.
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Wut
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Is the sentence hard to understand?
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its just hard to understand how something so stupid can be said
The Wiki page defines ETHICS as
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right.
What you are doing is anthropomorphizing science. Science is a method system for understanding nature.
And without ethics in science, we get nightmare bastardization of science.
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You just lumped all of “science” together. Even the science of documenting birdsong?
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It's not hard to understand, despite being badly formulated, it's just very questionable.
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Why do you think that asking questions, making a hypothesis, testing that hypothesis and writing down the results is unethical?
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this is like the shit i would say when i was 12, i am assuming the same about you
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When you assume you make an ass out of you and me.
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Found the psychopathic scientist!
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Have you ever asked a Scientist how they feel about the impacts of ethical frameworks on their study?
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This is some Josef Mengele type of shit. Hope you like the tropical sun
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To the pure science itself yes, but not to the larger environment resp. individuals. That's why there are usually checks in place.
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And scientific study is unethical... How?
My brother, how many examples do you need? Without mentioning the 30s and 40s, look at the Tuskegee Experiment where men were given syphilis intentionally and withheld treatment to study it's spread in black populations. Or the San Francisco Operation Sea-Spray when dangerous bacterial were sprayed over the entire city to study it's effects on the population. Ethical frameworks exist to prevent people from harming others in the pursuit of data, because if they aren't prevented they will. I order to prevent this harm from being done, a clearly defined set of principles must be stated and written down so that everyone involved can have the same understanding when designing and approving studies.
Yes. Those are examples of science being done unethically. Science itself is a process that is ethically neutral so it can be used in both good and bad ways. That doesn't make it unethical by nature like the original post claims it is.
Scientific study is by nature unethical because one must do unethical things in it's pursuit. We have ethical frameworks around Scientific Study for a reason, and it isn't because it was doing fine without those frameworks.
Ah yes, everyone knows how famously unethical astronomers are, they should respect the privacy and consent of supernovas. Filthy perverts peeping on those innocent stars!