Safe science is good science

Is any science safe?

COVER Stylized comparison of the inner solar system (top) and Kepler-62 (bottom), a fi ve-planet system about 1200 light-years away. Like our solar system, Kepler-62 hosts two planets in its habitable zone (depicted in green), the region around a star where a planet could conceivably maintain liquid water on its surface. The special section beginning on page 565 summarizes what we currently kno...

Socially Responsible Science Is More than “Good Science”

The role of scientist carries an array of responsibilities. The most obvious is accurate and reliable research that can be depended upon by fellow researchers. Scientists also have a responsibility to oppose misuse or abuse in the application of research findings, and to attend to both the limitations and the foreseeable impacts of their work. In addition, as members of society, scientists have...

What is Ethics of Science and Technology?

Background: The existence of crises and problems such as non-compliance with standards and professional ethics in the field of engineering and technology, and existence of fraud and misuse in the field of science has resulted in importance of ethics in the science and technology. But the fact is that there is no accurate understanding of the ethics of science and technology, and this field is o...

Towards Good Social Science

Replicability is not Reproducibility: Nor is it Good Science

At various machine learning conferences, at various times, there have been discussions arising from the inability to replicate the experimental results published in a paper. There seems to be a wide spread view that we need to do something to address this problem, as it is essential to the advancement of our field. The most compelling argument would seem to be that reproducibility of experiment...