The Tuskegee experiment (1932-1972) left me highly unsettled. 400 black men …show more content…
My plea for the scientific community is that review boards and ethics committees live up to the ethical codes as well! Promote beneficence: maximize our benefits and minimize our risks by actually allowing promising research to move forward. If a proposal meets all the ethical requirements, and it could truly have a positive impact, then please, do not punish society at large by postponing, denying, or otherwise encumbering its progression. If no harm is being done, if consent was given by the individual(s), if every safeguard is in place along the journey of discovery, and if that can be proven through the research proposal and articulation of the methods used in the field, then no problem exists and no questions of ethicality should be raised. Ethics are about more than preventing someone asking “Where was my cure?” Ethics are to avoid someone unduly waiting and asking “Is my cure discovered