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A word to the wise.

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The Polkinghorne Report on Fetal Research: nice recommendations, shame about the reasoning.

In 1989, in the wake of the first operations to transplant fetal tissue into the brains of sufferers from Parkinson's Disease, the UK Code of Practice governing the use of the fetus for research was overhauled by an eminent committee under the chairmanship of the Reverend Dr John Polkinghorne. The Polkinghorne Report has, however, attracted remarkably little comment or analysis. This paper is believed to be the first to subject it to sustained ethical and legal scrutiny. The author concludes that, although the committee's recommendations meet the major objections to the Code of Practice, the report is nevertheless vulnerable to criticism in its treatment of at least three issues: the moral status of the fetus; paternal consent to fetal use, and the ethical inter-relation of fetal use and abortion.

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Medical investigators' views about ethics and fraud in medical research.

The objective of this study was to ascertain the views and attitudes of medical investigators on medical ethics, and ethics and fraud in medical research. We sent postal questionnaires to all principal investigators whose study protocols had been assessed by their regional medical ethics committee for biomedical research (mid-Norway) in the years 1986-92 (n = 159). The response rate was 70% (n = 119). Some 80% agreed that ethical considerations had influenced their research and 12% that they would have had ethical scruples today about some of their previous projects. One in ten agreed that they might have achieved better results if they could have paid less attention to ethics. About 70% of the respondents found that the committee's comments were useful and relevant, but most agreed only in part. Around 85% agreed fully or in part that scientific quality is an important ethical element of any project and that researchers put more effort into their study protocol when they knew it would be evaluated by an ethics committee. One in six (18%) respondents agreed fully or in part that they had been exposed to scientific misconduct. Also, 27% knew about one or more cases of fraud or misconduct while 42% stated that this knowledge was not public. We concluded that ethics in medicine and medical research have an important and increasing role among investigators with little or no theoretical background and training in ethics. Scientific fraud and misconduct in medicine is a growing concern among researchers, who welcome a professional body that can manage allegations and cases of fraud.

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