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Conference Agrees on Global Science Ethics Code
from SciDevNet
Concerns that research fraud is on the rise have led science leaders from across the world to put together a set of principles and a voluntary code on research integrity.
The principles, intended to serve as a "guide for professionally responsible research practices throughout the world," were debated at the Second World Conference on Research Integrity, in Singapore last week (21-24 July) and will be published in a few weeks as the 'Singapore Statement on Research Integrity.'
They will aim to rise above cultural differences over definitions of misconduct and to have a broader appeal than existing codes, drawn up by the European Science Foundation and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Today's codes fail to account for nascent science structures in developing countries or the research aspirations of emerging nations in Asia and Latin America, the conference heard.
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