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Old 12-07-2004, 02:37 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by filtherton
I guess i was using the "of or employing the scientific method" as my definition of scientific. I don't make the distinction between morality. Science is science, regardless of the morality of the experiments. Scientific integrity is different than ethical or moral integrity. Or maybe i should say, useful data can be culled from experiments, even though the experiments themselves lacked morality. I wasn't considering data integrity or accuracy to be a matter of ethics, at least not the same kind of ethics we consider when discussing torture.

What makes you think that the scientific method doesn't include ethical standards? Data culled from unethical sources is irrevocably flawed and would be a faulty starting point to continue any scientific endevour. If the subject is being maliciously harmed in the process of experimentation how could you possibly hope to gain useful information?
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