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Chemical Education Today
Letters
Ethics for Scientists
Shaun O. Sommerer
Department of Physical Sciences, Barry University, 11300 Northeast Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161-6695
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July 1997
Vol. 74 No. 7
p. 744
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I applaud the recent article by Jeffrey Kovac (J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 926) in which our attention is directed towards the need for ethics in science and his efforts to develop texts and materials for classroom use. It is encouraging that articles discussing the inclusion of ethics in the chemistry curriculum are appearing more frequently in this Journal (e.g., J. Chem. Educ. 1996, 73, 33). I do however, take issue with Kovac's use of "Scientific Ethics" in both the title and the body of the article, which implies that environmental, biomedical, and religious ethics are nonscientific. Colleagues active in these areas publish scholarly work that is genuinely "scientific". I would suggest using "Science Ethics" or "Ethics for Scientists", since that is really what the paper is about and is more inclusive language. My concern is one of nomenclature which for chemists is of great importance and does not lessen in any way the solid foundations of Kovac's contribution.

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