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Research Ethics
Young scientists discuss the results of carelessness during experimentation and the temptation to misrepresent findings. These activities are intended to develop the ability to identify scientific error, misconduct, and fraud. Use this...
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Fraud In Science: Circumstances and Consequences
Students analyze a case study and evaluate its implications on the scientific community. In this Science ethics lesson, students read a case study and write responses to questions. Students discuss the actions of each scientist and...
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20th-Century Astronomy
Young scholars examine and explain how the distance to nearby stars can be measured by the parallax method, discuss the role of women in the history of American astronomy, form their own opinions of the importance of Harlow Shapley and...
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Ethics In The Science Classroom - Fraud In Science
Students are given a fictitious case study to read in preparation for the class. This activity can also be readily adapted for a role-playing classroom exercise. They discuss the ethical issues of the case.
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Too Good to be True-Science Frauds
Students practice listening and reading in English and are introduce to vocabulary connected to forgeries and fakes.
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Research Ethics
Students develop an ability to distinguish between simple error, misconduct and fraud. Students are lead to consider a widening circle of the consequences of misconduct and fraud. They expand their knowledge on the self-regulating...
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Improbability of Evolution
Students disprove evolution. In this science activity, students disprove evolution by attempting to prove that creation is the way it all began. They use the improbability that evolution could exist and expose its fallacies, frauds and...
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Bbc News: The Unmasking of Piltdown Man
A BBC news feature explores a twentieth-century "scientific embarrassment." The Piltdown Man fossils, originally thought to present a link between apes and humans, were revealed to be forgeries forty years after being discovered. Find...
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Online Ethics Center
This resource is a very extensive site that examines ethics in engineering and the natural sciences.
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Skeptic's Dictionary: Piltdown Hoax
Was the Piltdown Hoax proof that science is "bunk" or was it just a temporary detour demonstrating the fallibility and human quality of scientific knowledge? These pages explores why so many scientists appeared to be duped by the...