An unethical optimization principle

An optimization principle for determining movement duration.

Movement duration is an integral component of motor control, but nearly all extant optimization models of motor planning prefix duration instead of explaining it. Here we propose a new optimization principle that predicts movement duration. The model assumes that the brain attempts to minimize movement duration under the constraint of meeting an accuracy criterion. The criterion is task and con...

Fertility Massage: an Unethical Practice?

Manipulating impact factor: an unethical issue or an Editor's choice?

Quantitative assessment of the scientific merit of journals is being used increasingly. The idea of an ‘impact’ was first mentioned by Dr. Garfield as a reference counting in 1955 [1]. The term “impact factor”, the measure used to rank the importance of scientific journals, was coined with the publication in 1963 of the Science Citation Index for 1961. The citation rate of a journal which is qu...

-1271- Emotional Components of Unethical Decisions: an Exploratory Study

The role of emotions in decision-making has been explored by others and has revealed that both “immediate emotions”, those present at the time of the decision, and “expected emotions”, those expected to result from a decision, effect which alternative will be chosen (Lowenstein, 2001). The significance of emotions in behavior decisions has also been estimated as it relates to product and servic...

Unregistered Trials Are Unethical

Susanne McCabe I fi nd the arguments raised by the PLoS Medicine editors very useful [1] as I had not considered that a scientifi c community would tolerate barring access to registers of trials. It leaves huge gaps for exploitation by privileged groups. It is not only colleagues in research and allied professions who need access but the global community, including members of the public whereve...