Ethical Failures

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This paper discusses the issues regarding ethical failure in research design. The paper examines attempts to codify responses to ethical dilemmas. The issue of ethics in collecting data and in analyzing and reporting data is explored in the paper.

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"There is no question, in the aftermath of the WorldCom and Enron ethics failures, that ethics education is lacking in corporate America. But there is also ample evidence that academics have difficulties with ethical issues as well. "Noted historians Alex Haley, Doris Kearns Goodman and Steven E. Ambrose were accused of scholarly plagiarism in the writing of their books" (Petress 2003), certainly an ethical lapse in research conduct if the charges are true. Mr. Haley was deceased when the charges were leveled; Ms. Goodman apparently surmounted the charges leveled at her as she remains an NBC political commentator. (However, it should be mentioned that media might be seen as rife with ethical problems regarding their research, with the New York Times' Jayson Blair coming to mind. Indeed, many news professionals accused of ethical lapses, mainly plagiarism, have gone on to other jobs, "adding some truth to the belief that plagiarism is not such a terrible act" (Petress 2003). However, media is not academia, where higher standards must be achieved for several simple reasons, not least of which is that, in some disciplines such as medicine and law, life itself may hang on the outcome."

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