examples of research ethics violation

The 56-year-old doctor enrolled people he shouldn’t have for his medical trials, failed to document what happened to 25 units of a study drug, performed HIV tests on participants without their...

Most people are aware of some of the heinous medical experiments of the past that violated human rights. Participation in these studies was either forced or coerced under false pretenses. Some of the most notorious examples include the experiments by the Nazis, the Tuskegee syphilis study, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the CIA’s LSD ...

27 October 2021: Drug safety agency says IHU studies appear to have violated research ethics laws, confirms it has referred case to prosecutor. 27 April 2022: Drug safety agency reports unapproved research at the IHU and restricts institute’s research activities.

To demonstrate the importance of research ethics, we’ll briefly review two research studies that violated human rights in modern history. Nazi experiments Nazi doctors and researchers performed painful and horrific experiments on thousands of imprisoned people in concentration camps from 1942 to 1945.

Multiple examples of unethical research studies conducted in the past throughout the world have cast a significant historical shadow on research involving human subjects. Examples include the Tuskegee Syphilis Study from 1932 to 1972, Nazi medical experimentation in the 1930s and 1940s, and research conducted at the Willowbrook State School in ...

These examples have raised concerns about the negative impacts that research harms (e.g., stigmatization, violation of individuals' rights, lack of benefit, and cultural incongruence) can have on Indigenous communities.

In the advent of the genomics era, it is urgent to start closely monitoring compliance with fundamental ethical principles for research to prevent having massive leaks of information along with mistreatment, harm and violation of fundamental ethical principles, particularly in vulnerable groups.

Federal officials respond by saying that this language is needed to prosecute ethical breaches that do not strictly fall into the categories of falsification, fabrication, or plagiarism and that no scientist has been accused of misconduct on the basis of using unorthodox research methods.

A brain and heart hospital and research centre in Japan has found 158 cases of studies being done in violation of ethics standards since 2013.

Find resources on research misconduct, publication ethics, protecting research participants, ethics of online research, and guidance from various agencies and organizations, such as the NIH.