Research Ethics and Non-Human Subjects
There are long-established guidelines proscribing the publication of articles based on scientific experiments or trials that fail to protect the rights of human research subjects. But, as an article published by a leading journal last year chillingly suggests, research based on the torture of non-human subjects is still acceptable.
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PRINCETON – In August, Springer Nature, the publisher of 3,000 academic journals, including the Nature portfolio of the world’s most influential science journals, announced new ethics guidance for its editors, addressing the balance between academic freedom and the risk that publication of some research will harm specific groups of humans. The guidance also mentions, though much more briefly, research using animals.