Biological invasions as global environmental change

作者：Peter M. Vitousek, Carla M. D’Antonio, Lloyd L. Loope, Randy G. Westbrooks · 发表于：American Scientist · 年份：1996 · 被引用次数：2064 · 研究领域：Climate Change Communication and Perception

In recent years the difficult question what constitutes scientific misconduct? has troubled prominent ethicists and scientists and tied many a blue-ribbon panel in knots. In teaching an ethics class for graduate and undergraduate students over the past few years, we have identified what seems to be a necessary starting point for this debate: the clearest possible understanding of how science actually works. Without such an understanding, we believe, one can easily imagine formulating plausible-sounding ethical principles that would be unworkable or even damaging to the scientific enterprise.