Learning from our mistakes: Without question, similar problems will be faced in

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Learning from our mistakes: Without question, similar problems will be faced in the future as scientific exploration continues and more remains are likely to be found. Although the scientific method provides us with a framework for how to conduct our research of the remains, it does not take into account the ethics of scientific research. What are some additional criteria you could add to the scientific method in order to ensure that research is conducted in a moral and ethical way? Provide an example of an area of research/science that requires a code of ethics when suggesting your modifications to the scientific method.

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Scientific morality is considered as oxymoron, it’s considered as the neutral. This is an not an completely true. The logic of the science is based upon the data, laws, hypotheses and the theories and it’s completely empirical and formal. I personally consider that some questions should be addressed before conducting any research or conducting any experiment this includes will it be morally correct to perform this experiment, compare the pros and cons of the questions then only proceed in the experiment. Science does not take religion into consideration for every experiment. Nuremburg Code was created for performing ethically guided scientific research. I consider there is an requirement of properly ethics to perform scientific research.

In 1996 two tourists stumbled across a human skull in Kennewick, on the Columbia river in Washington, It was dated to be more than 9000 year old by the means of carbon-dating that means the bones belong to 14th century. Scientific cominity was exited with this discovery where as the local Umatilla Indians demanded the remains to be rebury under North America Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), for them it was related to their religious belief.

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