In this scenario a professor asks a graduate student to help with his consulting project. The graduate student does not want to but is afraid that her refusal will result in the lost of her RA position.
This scenario is of a professor who demands that his advisee's thesis needs much more work with additional work after he led his student to believe that the final draft was completed.
A doctoral student is working on her dissertation. She begins a paper for publication with three months more research needed. The doctor in charge of the lab fabricates data in order to finish the paper sooner so that he will receive a grant that will keep the lab open.
Dr. Ethicos reviews a poorly written paper for a journal and decides it cannot be published. She would like her graduate student to try the interaction described in the paper for her own research.
New York: Cambridge University Press. Other keywords for this article: ethics and prudence; preferences vs. values; negligence; trust, distrust; ambiguity; moral ambiguity; responsibilities, general; professional responsibility; public safety; worker safety; laboratory safety; design process; environmental issues, global; environmental issues, chemical; criteria for competence; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; harassment, sexual harassment and aggression; workplace relationships; research misconduct; falsification and fabrication; plagiarism; authorship; human subjects in research; animals in scientific research.