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The document discusses the Flint water crisis and scientific integrity issues related to it. It assigns two readings on the topic and provides instructions to answer questions about identifying ethical issues, scientific integrity issues, questionable practices in testing Flint's water, what key actors could have done differently, and how to prevent similar issues in the future.

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2 Assignment Flint

The document discusses the Flint water crisis and scientific integrity issues related to it. It assigns two readings on the topic and provides instructions to answer questions about identifying ethical issues, scientific integrity issues, questionable practices in testing Flint's water, what key actors could have done differently, and how to prevent similar issues in the future.

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Flint Water Crisis & Scientific Integrity

Assigned Readings:

1. Brush, M. (2015, November 3). Expert says Michigan officials changed a Flint lead report
to avoid federal action. Michigan Radio. Available online:
https://www.michiganradio.org/post/expert-says-michigan-officials-changed-flint-lead-
report-avoid-federal-action

2. Burke, K. L. (2016, May). Flint Water Crisis Yields Hard Lessons in Science and Ethics.
American Scientist, 104(3), 134. Available online: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/
flint-water-crisis-yields-hard-lessons-in-science-and-ethics

Instructions
Read the articles by Mark Brush and Katie L. Burke and answer the following questions in the
forum on Brightspace.
1. Identify and describe an ethical issue in the cases of Flint and/or Washington D.C.

2. Identify and describe a scientific integrity issue.

3. What questionable scientific or methodological practices in the testing and reporting of


Flint’s water can you identify?

4. What could/should have been done differently by the key actors?


– choose one actor –
- EPA officials & scientists
- CDC officials & scientists
- others?

5. How could something like this be avoided or prevented from happening again?

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