A researcher and students wants to study the effectiveness of a new cancer drug. To do this, they plan on injecting rats with ca
ncerous cells and then administering the drug to half and administering a placebo to the other half. Their data will be stored electronically, and collaboration between the researcher and students will be done over e-mail. What are some of the ethical concerns regarding this study, and how can they remedy these issues?
Many critics are of the view that using animals for scientific researches might one day cause such organisms to be formed which will affect the wildlife organisms very badly.
In the following experiment, the major ethical concern is that if the drug is not rightly administered or if the new drug is not authentic, it will kill the mice. The mice might also undergo serious side effects before dying.
One of the major ethical concerns would be the well being of the rats used for experimentation. Upon receiving the cancerous cells, the rats could die. If the new drug ends up not working, it could cause the animals to suffer side effects before dying. This issue could be solved by conducting the research on tissue samples in the lab, rather than on animals.
The first option (unable to cause climate change) is incorrect because these gases do effect the atmospheric temperatures by increasing them. The second option is incorrect because while these gases do cause more water vapor to condense, they result in acid rain (not wetter climates).
