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Why Is Truman Capote Unethical
Capote was an interesting movie to watch, as I did not know anything about Truman Capote besides recognizing his name. The lack of ethics contained within the story-line were fairly easy to spot. The research itself took on a different appearance though, as the information being collected was for a novel, not a research paper.

The overwhelming issue that stuck out to me, in regard to ethics in research, was the lack of informed consent for the information obtained from Perry Smith. Participants in research are supposed to have adequate information about the research, understand the information, and voluntarily consent or decline participation in the study (Polit & Beck, 2017). Smith did not know the details of what his information was being

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