Ethics and scientific research.

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Introduction Many scientists believe that the moral dimensions of their research programs are important dimensions to which they and their students should pay close attention, and recent assessments of the science curriculum strongly support them. In a suggestion that applies directly to science classes and indirectly to research programs, the American Association for the Advancement of Science recommends that Science courses must convey [the broader] aspects of science by stressing its ethical, social, economic, and political dimensions. Both the citizen and the scientist should possess the abilities to estimate the costs, benefits, and risks of science in economic, societal, and individual terms and to understand why public policies and governmental regulations must be considered in the practical application of scientific knowledge. (Project on Liberal Education and the Sciences, 1990.) At least one government agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), now requires ethics progr

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