Sources and Ethics of Scientific Information

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By the end of this lesson

• Find an appropriate scientific source and trace a claim to the work behind it.
• Explain how methods, results and limitations affect what a source can support.
• Use evidence with accurate credit, honest reporting and care for the people involved.

Mentioned in this episode

Further reading on the ideas discussed in this episode:

• PubMed User Guide (U.S. National Library of Medicine). Guidance on searching for biomedical literature, checking how PubMed interprets a search and refining the results.
• Definition of Research Misconduct (U.S. Office of Research Integrity). Definitions of fabrication, falsification and plagiarism, and the distinction between research misconduct and honest error.