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|Important Because=This is important because it can make the difference in sharing important knowledge or not. | |Important Because=This is important because it can make the difference in sharing important knowledge or not. | ||
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|Has Location=USA; United States | |Has Location=USA; United States | ||
| − | |Has Virtue And Value=Honesty | + | |Has Virtue And Value=Honesty; Respect |
| − | |Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Non-publication | + | |Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Non-publication; Data reporting |
|Related To Research Area=Other humanities | |Related To Research Area=Other humanities | ||
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Forbidden Knowledge
What is this about?
This case is about sharing knowledge concerning a specific group of native Americans in the Southwest of the United States. The central questions is this case are the following: "Do the wishes of my consultants override the need of science for an ethnographic description of a little-known culture that is becoming westernized? Would it be ethical to produce a work that would appear only after all of my consultants are dead, which could be 20 or 30 years? Or does the right to privacy, which my consultants insisted on, have to be observed as long as the people maintain their independent existence?"
Why is this important?
This is important because it can make the difference in sharing important knowledge or not.
