Responding to unethical research: the importance of transparency

Wendy A Rogers¹, Wendy C Higgins², Angela Ballantyne^{3

4}, Wendy Lipworth⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Philosophy and Department of Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia wendy.rogers@mq.edu.au.
² Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁴ Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice [Wellington], and Bioethics Centre [Dunedin], University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
⁵ Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Comment

Wendy A Rogers et al. J Med Ethics. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;46(10):691-692.

doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106878. Epub 2020 Sep 14.

Wendy A Rogers¹, Wendy C Higgins², Angela Ballantyne^{3

4}, Wendy Lipworth⁵

¹ Department of Philosophy and Department of Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia wendy.rogers@mq.edu.au.
² Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁴ Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice [Wellington], and Bioethics Centre [Dunedin], University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
⁵ Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: ethics.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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