The placebo effect: is it unethical to use it or unethical not to?

Is It Always Unethical to Use a Placebo in a Clinical Trial?

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Placebos are used in trials to conceal whether a treatment is being given or not and hence to control for the psychosomatic effects of offering treatment. Placebo-controlled trials are controversial. Critics of such trials argue that if a proven effective therapy exists, a placebo should not be used. But proponents argue that placebo trials are still crucial to prove th...

Is It Early to Talk About Unethical Publication Practices?

As modern medical and health sciences education in Ethiopia has not more than half a century publication in the field was limited. However, in recent years due to relative increment in health workforce and number of journals to publish on, the number of publications both on international and local journals are increasing alarmingly. In line with this, unethical publication practicesauthorship p...

The Planned Obsolescence of the Humanities: Is It Unethical?

The humanities have not enjoyed preeminence in academe since the Scientific Revolution marginalized the old trivium. But they long continued to play a subordinate educational role by helping constitute the distinguishing culture of the elite. Now even this subordinate role is becoming expendable as devotees of the profit motive seek to reduce culture to technological delivery of cultural produc...

A Conceptual Model of Practitioners' Attitude toward Unethical IT Use

Whatever it takes: rivalry and unethical behavior

This research investigates the link between rivalry and unethical behavior. We propose that people will be more likely to engage in unethical behavior when competing against their rivals than when competing against non-rival competitors. Across an archival study and a series of experiments, we found that rivalry was associated with increased unsportsmanlike behavior, use of deception, and willi...