• Question: are there any ethical boundries in your work

    Asked by caliscrazy to Laura, Lily, Mark, Paul, Sarah on 22 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sarah Bardsley

      Sarah Bardsley answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Luckily my work does not involve any ethical issues. I am a desk bound researcher working for the Environment Agency to protect the environment. So its all pretty clear cut and not ambiguous – no controversy here!

    • Photo: Mark Roberts

      Mark Roberts answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Good qu – not really I guess.

      There are boundaries in being careful that nothing I use for an experiment leaves the lab and being careful that way and also not making anything pathogenic but that’s probably it.

    • Photo: Lily Asquith

      Lily Asquith answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      not specially in particle physics. We don’t get to interact with people that much 😉

    • Photo: Laura Maliszewski

      Laura Maliszewski answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Part of my policy work is exploring where ethical boundaries should be set for researchers

    • Photo: Paul Roche

      Paul Roche answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Nope, I weigh stars, so they don’t/can’t complain. Astronomy doesn’t really have ethical aspects, expect maybe if we ever discovered alien life somewhere, or if (in the future) humans wanted to go and change a planet like Mars to be like the Earth (“terraforming”). But at the moment, I can’t think of any.

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