Research critics to be properly informed

Can informed consent to research be adapted to risk?

The current ethical and regulatory framework for research is often charged with burdening investigators and impeding socially valuable research. To address these concerns, a growing number of research ethicists argue that informed consent should be adapted to the risks of research participation. This would require less rigorous consent standards in low-risk research than in high-risk research. ...

Commentary: time to research echinacea properly.

Forensic uses of research biobanks: should donors be informed?

Occasional reports in the literature suggest that biological samples collected and stored for scientific research are sometimes accessed and used for a variety of forensic purposes. However, donors are almost never informed about this possibility. In this paper we argue that the possibility of forensic access may constitute a relevant consideration at least to some potential research subjects i...

Questions whether clients were properly informed about treatment protocol.

Views: Letters to the Editor 1721 advances in basic science enter the clinical realm every day, and therefore, during the precious years of formal education, veterinary students need to learn that a practitioner’s life is a constant struggle against obsolescence. Prier’s statement that practitioner-teachers should not be ignorant of scientific advances is one of the best reasons for teachers an...

Epistemic contextualism can be stated properly

It has been argued that epistemic contextualism faces the so-called factivity problem and hence cannot be stated properly. The basic idea behind this charge is that contextualists supposedly have to say, on the one hand, that knowledge ascribing sentences like “S knows that S has hands” are true when used in ordinary contexts while, on the other hand, they are not true by the standard of their ...