David B Resnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1264932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David B Resnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | David B |
| FAMILY NAME | Resnik |
| SIGNATURE | RESNIK D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Carolina University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5139-9555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Informed Consent for Research Participation During Space Exploration: Ethical Issues
While informed consent is widely recognized as a cornerstone of ethical research with human participants, applying this principle to space exploration research creates some unique challenges and dilemmas. In this article, we examine ethical issues related to informed consent for participation in space exploration research and offer some suggestions for policy development and further investigation. We argue that: (1) informed consent for space exp…
Benefits and Risks of Using AI Agents in Research
Scientists have begun using AI agents in tasks such as reviewing the published literature, formulating hypotheses and subjecting them to virtual tests, modeling complex phenomena, and conducting experiments. Although AI agents are likely to enhance the productivity and efficiency of scientific inquiry, their deployment also creates risks for the research enterprise and society, including poor policy decisions based on erroneous, inaccurate, or bi…
Guidance needed for using artificial intelligence to screen journal submissions for misconduct
Journals and publishers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to screen submissions for potential misconduct, including plagiarism and data or image manipulation. While using AI can enhance the integrity of published manuscripts, it can also increase the risk of false/unsubstantiated allegations. Ambiguities related to journals’ and publishers’ responsibilities concerning fairness and transparency also raise ethical concerns. In thi…
An Analysis of Institutional Review Board Policies for Enrollment of Adults with Impaired or Uncertain Decision-Making Capacity
Background: Unwarranted exclusion of people with uncertain or impaired decision-making capacity from participation in research violates principles of justice and fairness and adversely impacts the health and welfare of these populations. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of institutional review board (IRB) policies for investigators and IRB members at 94 top-funded U.S. research institutions to better understand the guidance they prov…
Subconscious value influences on science
Philosophical scholarship on science and values has gradually shifted away from asking whether values have any legitimate role to play in scientific judgment and decision-making and toward considering how to responsibly manage value influences to protect the integrity, rigor, reliability, and trustworthiness of science. This scholarship has focused primarily on helping individual scientists deal with cases in which they are aware of the values at…
Green bioethics, patient autonomy and informed consent in healthcare
Green bioethics is an area of research and scholarship that examines the impact of healthcare practices and policies on the environment and emphasises environmental values, such as ecological sustainability and stewardship. Some green bioethicists have argued that healthcare providers should inform patients about the environmental impacts of treatments and advocate for options that minimise adverse impacts. While disclosure of information pertain…
Vulnerable Research Participant Policies at U.S. Academic Institutions
Background: Historically, some of the worst abuses of human research participants have involved populations which are vulnerable to coercion, harm, or exploitation, such as prisoners, children, and people with compromised decision-making abilities. Although there has been considerable philosophical and ethical debate about how to protect vulnerable populations, there have been only a handful of empirical studies on vulnerable population policies.…
The ethics of disclosing the use of artificial intelligence tools in writing scholarly manuscripts
In this article, we discuss ethical issues related to using and disclosing artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT and other systems based on large language models (LLMs), to write or edit scholarly manuscripts. Some journals, such as Science , have banned the use of LLMs because of the ethical problems they raise concerning responsible authorship. We argue that this is not a reasonable response to the moral conundrums created by the …
Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem
Should authorship on scientific publications be treated as a right
Sometimes researchers explicitly or implicitly conceive of authorship in terms of moral or ethical rights to authorship when they are dealing with authorship issues. Because treating authorship as a right can encourage unethical behaviours, such as honorary and ghost authorship, buying and selling authorship, and unfair treatment of researchers, we recommend that researchers not conceive of authorship in this way but view it as a description abou…
Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing
The new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and especially the large language models (LLMs) of which ChatGPT is the most prominent example, have the potential to transform many aspects of scholarly publishing. How the transformations will play out remains to be seen, both because the different parties involved in the production and publication of scholarly work are still learning about these tools and because the tools themselves are s…
Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform many aspects of scholarly publishing. Authors, peer reviewers, and editors might use AI in a variety of ways, and those uses might augment their existing work or might instead be intended to replace it. We are editors of bioethics and humanities journals who have been contemplating the implications of this ongoing transformation. We believe that generative AI may pose a threat…
Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing
The new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and especially the large language models (LLMs) of which ChatGPT is the most prominent example, have the potential to transform many aspects of scholarly publishing. How the transformations will play out remains to be seen, both because the different parties involved in the production and publication of scholarly work are still learning about these tools and because the tools themselves are s…
Authorship Issues When Articles are Retracted Due to Research Misconduct and Then Resubmitted
Environmental justice and climate change policies
Climate change is an environmental justice issue because it is likely to cause disproportionate harm to low‐income countries and low‐income populations in higher‐income countries. While climate change mitigation and adaptation policies may be able to minimize these harms, they could make them worse unless they are developed and implemented with an eye toward promoting justice and fairness. Those who view climate change as an environmental justice…
Public Engagement and the Social Risks of Science
This letter responds to the article “The Social Risks of Science,” by Jonathan Herington and Scott Tanona, published in the November‐December 2020 issue of the Hastings Center Report
How Should Engineered Nanomaterials Be Regulated for Public and Environmental Health
A central ethical and policy issue regarding minimizing and managing risks of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is whether existing legal frameworks sufficiently protect public health and the environment. This article argues that policymakers should (1) use existing laws to regulate ENMs and the best available evidence to inform appropriate levels of regulation and (2) support additional research on risks of ENMs. Were they to do so, public health …
Value-entanglement and the integrity of scientific research
Difficulties with Applying a Strong Social Value Requirement to Clinical Research
In an insightful article published in this issue of the Hastings Center Report, Danielle Wenner criticizes what she describes as transactional approaches to the social value requirement in clinical research and defends a “basic structure approach.” Transactional approaches understand social value obligations as arising from transactions (or relationships) between research subjects, investigators, sponsors, and other parties. The basic structure a…
Ethics of community engagement in field trials of genetically modified mosquitoes
Effective community engagement is an important legal, ethical, and practical prerequisite for conducting field trials of genetically modified mosquitoes, because these studies can substantially impact communities and it is usually not possible to obtain informed consent from each community member. Researchers who are planning to conduct field trials should develop a robust community engagement strategy that meets widely recognized standards for s…
A Study of Reliance Agreement Templates Used by U.S. Research Institutions
We performed a content analysis of reliance agreement templates from 73 of the top U.S. research institutions ranked by research funding. 67.1% of institutions in our sample use the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) template and 8.2% use the SMART IRB template. Although a significant percentage of institutions (45.2%) use their own custom template, many of these also use the OHRP template or the SMART IRB template. 21.9% of institutiona…
Objectivity of Research: Ethical Aspects
The Misregulation of Research
Very few people who read Carl Schneider's The Censor's Hand: The Misregulation of Human‐Subject Research (MIT Press, 2015) will have a neutral opinion of his book. Schneider defends the radical thesis that the system of regulating human subjects research is not just broken but deeply misguided and therefore needs to be abolished. While some researchers who are frustrated with the current regime will welcome Schneider's scathing critiques of insti…
A framework for addressing ethical issues in citizen science
Retracting Inconclusive Research: Lessons from the Séralini GM Maize Feeding Study
A framework for addressing ethical issues in citizen science
Is the precautionary principle unscientific
The Human Genome Diversity Project: Ethical Problems and Solutions
The goal of the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) is to provide a comprehensive study of genetic diversity across different human populations. Scientists working on the HGDP plan to collect samples from all 400 to 500 geographically isolated or culturally unique human populations that desire to participate in the project. Few people have questioned the scientific merits of the HGDP and its potential contribution to our understanding of human …
Value-entanglement and the integrity of scientific research
A pragmatic approach to the demarcation problem
Urban Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Deliberative Democracy
Urban sprawl is an increasingly common feature of the built environment in the United States and other industrialized nations. Although there is considerable evidence that urban sprawl has adverse affects on public health and the environment, policy frameworks designed to combat sprawl—such as smart growth—have proven to be controversial, making implementation difficult. Smart growth has generated considerable controversy because stakeholders aff…
Vulnerable Research Participant Policies at U.S. Academic Institutions
Background: Historically, some of the worst abuses of human research participants have involved populations which are vulnerable to coercion, harm, or exploitation, such as prisoners, children, and people with compromised decision-making abilities. Although there has been considerable philosophical and ethical debate about how to protect vulnerable populations, there have been only a handful of empirical studies on vulnerable population policies.…
Retracting Inconclusive Research: Lessons from the Séralini GM Maize Feeding Study
Lessons Learned From the Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study
We examined 5 different ethical concerns about the Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study and make some recommendations for future studies of exposure to hazardous environmental agents in the home. Researchers should seek community consultation and participation; make participants aware of all the risks associated with the research, including hazards discovered in the home and uncertainties about the risks of agents under investigation;…
Data Falsification in Clinical Trials
This article uses an infamous case of data falsification in clinical research as a starting point for a deeper analysis of some of the motivations and obligations that could encourage misconduct in a clinical setting. The article argues that the use of alternative, less rigid experimental designs and protocols could help lessen the pressures on researchers to falsify clinical data pertaining to patient records, and that it is worth considering al…
Case Studies: What's A Pharmacist to Do
A case study is presented in which a pharmacist in a Drug Information Center is queried by a patient about how to obtain a homeopathic medicine. There appear to be no scientific data regarding the efficacy or safety of the medication. The pharmacist has three options: to inform the patient how to obtain the medicine, to tell the patient that the medicine is ineffective and withhold information on how to obtain it, or to discuss its therapeutic un…
Adaptationist explanations
The ethics of cyber relationships
article Free Access Share on The ethics of cyber relationships Author: David Resnik University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY University of Wyoming, Laramie, WYView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGCAS Computers and SocietyVolume 26Issue 1March 1996 pp 16–19https://doi.org/10.1145/229403.229412Online:01 March 1996Publication History 0citation1,006DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads1,006Last 12 Months10Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew…
Data Falsification in Clinical Trials
This article uses an infamous case of data falsification in clinical research as a starting point for a deeper analysis of some of the motivations and obligations that could encourage misconduct in a clinical setting. The article argues that the use of alternative, less rigid experimental designs and protocols could help lessen the pressures on researchers to falsify clinical data pertaining to patient records, and that it is worth considering al…
Genetic Engineering and Social Justice: A Rawlsian Approach
L'A. mesure les consequences du developpement de l'ingenierie genetique humaine sur la theorie rawlsienne de la justice distributive. Designant par le concept de normalite genetique l'inegalite entre les individus telle qu'elle doit rester un avantage pour tous et ne pas menacer ni l'egalite des chances ni l'egalite de la liberte, l'A. montre que la possibilite d'un controle de la loterie naturelle par la genetique peut engendrer un systeme de ca…
Laws and Development
Scientific Rationality and Epistemic Goals
Medical misinformation on the Web: Mitigation or Control
article Medical misinformation on the Web: mitigation or control? Share on Author: David B. Resnik Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director, The Center fbr the Advancement of Ethics, University of Wyoming Laramie, WY Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director, The Center fbr the Advancement of Ethics, University of Wyoming Laramie, WYView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGCAS Computers and SocietyVolume 28Issue 1March 1998 pp 35–37ht…
Germ-Line Manipulations, Private Industry, and Secrecy
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The ethics of science: An Introduction
Biological Warfare and Scientific Responsibility
As we approach the 21st century, the threat of nuclear Armageddon has lessened somewhat, but a new threat has emerged: biological warfare. The splitting of the atom eventually led to the detonation of atomic bombs, and the discovery of DNA may soon lead to the use of genetic weapons. This article argues that the scientific community has a responsibility to help protect the world against the threat of biological weapons
The Hazards of Studying Human Genetic Variation
I would like to thank all of the scholars who wrote commentaries on my essay “The Human Genome Diversity Project: Ethical Problems and Solutions.” I welcome the criticism and have learned a great deal from such thoughtful analysis and commentary. Since I am replying to comments about my paper, I am in the unique position of having the last word (at least temporarily!). Since I now have the opportunity to learn from criticism, I reserve the right …
The Human Genome Diversity Project: Ethical Problems and Solutions
The goal of the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) is to provide a comprehensive study of genetic diversity across different human populations. Scientists working on the HGDP plan to collect samples from all 400 to 500 geographically isolated or culturally unique human populations that desire to participate in the project. Few people have questioned the scientific merits of the HGDP and its potential contribution to our understanding of human …
A pragmatic approach to the demarcation problem
Case Study: Pain and Sickle Cell Anemia
Developing Drugs for the Developing World: An Economic, Legal, Moral, and Political Dilemma
This paper discusses the economic, legal, moral, and political difficulties in developing drugs for the developing world. It argues that large, global pharmaceutical companies have social responsibilities to the developing world, and that they may exercise these responsibilities by investing in research and development related to diseases that affect developing nations, offering discounts on drug prices, and initiating drug giveaways. However, th…
Copernicus, Darwin, and Human Embryos
This article explores the impact of the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions on our view of human-kind’s place in the universe and locates the current debates about stem cell research within this larger sociohistorical context. The article argues that the past 500 years of science support the idea that the morally significant features of human beings reside in the unique cognitive, emotive, and social traits that are often described as the “soul,…
Setting Biomedical Research Priorities in the 21st Century
Physicians should encourage pharmaceutical companies to make socially responsible funding decisions and take an active role in setting biomedical research priorities by advocating for fair and effective allocations of public and private biomedical R & D investments. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Genetic testing and primary care: A new ethic for a new setting
For several decades, clinical geneticists have espoused two key ethical principles, nondirectiveness and confidentiality. These principles made a great deal of sense in the highly personal and controversial setting of reproductive genetics. Now that clinical genetics has entered the primary care setting, clinicians are rethinking the strength of their commitment to these traditional norms and they are revamping their ethical priorities. Patients …
Is the precautionary principle unscientific
The Distribution of Biomedical Research Resources and International Justice
According to some estimates, less than 10% of the world's biomedical research funds are dedicated to addressing problems that are responsible for 90% of the world's burden of disease. This paper explains why this disparity exists and what should be done about it. It argues that the disparity exists because: 1) multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies do not regard research and development investments on the health problems of deve…
Terrorism and Intellectual Property Rights
A bioethicist argues that the government has the right to restrict or override intellectual property rights in response to a national emergency only when specific criteria are met. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Conflicts of Interest at the NIH: No Easy Solution
Lessons Learned From the Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study
We examined 5 different ethical concerns about the Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study and make some recommendations for future studies of exposure to hazardous environmental agents in the home. Researchers should seek community consultation and participation; make participants aware of all the risks associated with the research, including hazards discovered in the home and uncertainties about the risks of agents under investigation;…
Research Integrity in China: Problems and Prospects
In little more than 30 years, China has recovered from the intellectual stagnation brought about by the Cultural Revolution to become a global leader in science and technology. Like other leading countries in science and technology, China has encountered some ethical problems related to the conduct of research. China's leaders have taken some steps to respond to these problems, such as developing ethics policies and establishing oversight committ…
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