Madrid,Noamie

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Case 3:

Dr. Wexford is the principal investigator of a large, epidemiological study on the health of 10,000
agricultural workers. She has an impressive dataset that includes information on demographics,
environmental exposures, diet, genetics, and various disease outcomes such as cancer,
Parkinson’s disease (PD), and ALS. She has just published a paper on the relationship between
pesticide exposure and PD in a prestigious journal. She is planning is planning to publish many
other papers from her dataset. She receives a request from another research team that wants
access to her complete dataset. They are interested in examining the relationship between
pesticide exposures and skin cancer. Dr. Wexford was planning to conduct a study on this topic.

1. Research misconduct

The possibility that Dr. Wexford might accept the request from the research team that wants to
access her complete dataset of gathered information from the 10,000 agricultural workers.

2. Implication
Accepting this request will violate the intellectual rights of the 10,000
agricultural workers since they did not sign or approved any legal consent from Dr.
Wexford and her study.

3. Ethical Standard
Knowing that accepting this request may/will go against their confidentiality
and respect for intellectual property, she should not release the complete dataset without
the consent of her participants because she was trusted with their personal information.
Jan Galang

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Case 3:

Dr. Wexford is the principal investigator of a large, epidemiological study on the health of 10,000
agricultural workers. She has an impressive dataset that includes information on demographics,
environmental exposures, diet, genetics, and various disease outcomes such as cancer,
Parkinson’s disease (PD), and ALS. She has just published a paper on the relationship between
pesticide exposure and PD in a prestigious journal. She is planning is planning to publish many
other papers from her dataset. She receives a request from another research team that wants
access to her complete dataset. They are interested in examining the relationship between
pesticide exposures and skin cancer. Dr. Wexford was planning to conduct a study on this topic.

1. Research misconduct

The possibility that Dr. Wexford might accept the request from the research team that wants to
access her complete dataset of gathered information from the 10,000 agricultural workers.

2. Implication
Accepting this request will violate the intellectual rights of the 10,000
agricultural workers since they did not sign or approved any legal consent from Dr.
Wexford and her study.

3. Ethical Standard
Knowing that accepting this request may/will go against their confidentiality
and respect for intellectual property, she should not release the complete dataset without
the consent of her participants because she was trusted with their personal information.
Shennen Conde

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Case 3:

Dr. Wexford is the principal investigator of a large, epidemiological study on the health of 10,000
agricultural workers. She has an impressive dataset that includes information on demographics,
environmental exposures, diet, genetics, and various disease outcomes such as cancer,
Parkinson’s disease (PD), and ALS. She has just published a paper on the relationship between
pesticide exposure and PD in a prestigious journal. She is planning is planning to publish many
other papers from her dataset. She receives a request from another research team that wants
access to her complete dataset. They are interested in examining the relationship between
pesticide exposures and skin cancer. Dr. Wexford was planning to conduct a study on this topic.

1. Research misconduct

The possibility that Dr. Wexford might accept the request from the research team that wants to
access her complete dataset of gathered information from the 10,000 agricultural workers.

2. Implication
Accepting this request will violate the intellectual rights of the 10,000
agricultural workers since they did not sign or approved any legal consent from Dr.
Wexford and her study.

3. Ethical Standard
Knowing that accepting this request may/will go against their confidentiality
and respect for intellectual property, she should not release the complete dataset without
the consent of her participants because she was trusted with their personal information.
Eiza Rivera

Block-AD

Case 3:

Dr. Wexford is the principal investigator of a large, epidemiological study on the health of 10,000
agricultural workers. She has an impressive dataset that includes information on demographics,
environmental exposures, diet, genetics, and various disease outcomes such as cancer,
Parkinson’s disease (PD), and ALS. She has just published a paper on the relationship between
pesticide exposure and PD in a prestigious journal. She is planning is planning to publish many
other papers from her dataset. She receives a request from another research team that wants
access to her complete dataset. They are interested in examining the relationship between
pesticide exposures and skin cancer. Dr. Wexford was planning to conduct a study on this topic.

1. Research misconduct

The possibility that Dr. Wexford might accept the request from the research team that wants to
access her complete dataset of gathered information from the 10,000 agricultural workers.

2. Implication
Accepting this request will violate the intellectual rights of the 10,000
agricultural workers since they did not sign or approved any legal consent from Dr.
Wexford and her study.

3. Ethical Standard
Knowing that accepting this request may/will go against their confidentiality
and respect for intellectual property, she should not release the complete dataset without
the consent of her participants because she was trusted with their personal information.