{"title":"Ethics and responsibility","authors":"Betty Dehoney","doi":"10.1080/14660466.2019.1654357","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Editing scientific reports to misrepresent data; stopping research intended to support policy decisions; and making important policy and legal decisions by individuals with financial and personal relationships and conflicts-of-interest without relying upon scientific input, seem to happen more frequently these days. As environmental professionals, individuals question our integrity because they do not like the conclusions reached in the analyses. The integrity (i.e., ethics) of professionals may be questioned when the studies are financed by those with an interest in the outcome.","PeriodicalId":45250,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Practice","volume":"43 1","pages":"106 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Environmental Practice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660466.2019.1654357","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Editing scientific reports to misrepresent data; stopping research intended to support policy decisions; and making important policy and legal decisions by individuals with financial and personal relationships and conflicts-of-interest without relying upon scientific input, seem to happen more frequently these days. As environmental professionals, individuals question our integrity because they do not like the conclusions reached in the analyses. The integrity (i.e., ethics) of professionals may be questioned when the studies are financed by those with an interest in the outcome.
期刊介绍:
Environmental Practice provides a multidisciplinary forum for authoritative discussion and analysis of issues of wide interest to the international community of environmental professionals, with the intent of developing innovative solutions to environmental problems for public policy implementation, professional practice, or both. Peer-reviewed original research papers, environmental reviews, and commentaries, along with news articles, book reviews, and points of view, link findings in science and technology with issues of public policy, health, environmental quality, law, political economy, management, and the appropriate standards for expertise. Published for the National Association of Environmental Professionals