Cancer Gene Therapy

Medical Research Scientists Make Ethical Value Judgments in Research

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 29th, 2007

Medical research scientists in public health and other areas routinely make ethical value judgments, even if they're not aware of it, according to a new Weill Cornell Medical College research study. And not only do these judgments not lead to bias necessarily, but they can make for better research.

Published in the current issue of European Journal of Epidemiology, the paper finds that the framing of the research question, identification of the problem, as well as the design and methodology of the study are all subject to value judgments by investigators.

To illustrate this point, the study focuses on how value judgments are made in epidemiological...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-05-29)

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