Dear Martin,
The point is that it takes two to tango. If a piece of work is not published who has been unethical - the scientists who performed the work or the journals that refused to publish it? This debate is always conducted as if the only reason that work is not published is because the putative authors make a decision never to submit it for publication. This is not always the case.
Regards
Stephen
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From: Evidence based health (EBH) [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dawes, Martin [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 10 March 2011 20:28
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Subject: unpublished research - is it ethical
Dear all
I am reviewing ethics applications from residents that involve human subjects. An anxiety I have is that although the research may get done it may not be published. Is this in itself unethical?
By published I mean somewhere that you will find it when you search the web - so might include on line grey literature and items such as resident conference abstracts from posters.
I realise that this is the EBH list and not ethics but it has some of the most thoughtful responses of the discussion lists I have looked at.
Thanks -
Martin
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