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NAGPRA, is it enough?

This week, I read the article Native America’s Necessary And Imperfect Law by Chip Colwell, posted on…

Ethical Considerations behind Human and Animal Cloning

Defining ‘Harm’ on the Internet

It is one of the most notable quotes, and by extension rules, of nearly all fields of medical science and in most fields of scientific research. “First, do no harm”, the Hippocratic Oath, is the most important ethical rule of medical science. However, often times doctors…

Genetic Modification- an ethical conundrum

CRISPR is a method for genetic manipulation developed in the early to mid 2000s by…

Privacy: The Fiscal or Ethical Dilemma

In the course of last week’s class discussion, an interesting topic was hit upon on cyber ethics and what social medias do with out information. Specifically, how they utilize it to alter what we see on their platforms and who they share our information with. I…

Know Your Terms of Service

When downloading a new app and creating an account, many people overlook the terms of service and privacy policy. I, myself, am guilty of doing this; but we need to stop. We are giving away our permission and handing over information about ourselves to not only the app, but outside third parties…

Cutting and Pasting Human DNA: Is it Ethical?

CRISPR is an exciting new tool for editing DNA as it can delete and replace sequences. It is therefore popular in the world of genome engineering and has a hand in modifying genes across species including animal and plant species (1)

Ethics in Coding

In class we discussed ethical measures anthropologists must take in their research and extended that to internet research and the ethics in coding and design.

A component of ethical coding is how accessible you make your code. As a programmer it’s important to keep in mind…

Fieldwork pioneer in Papua New Guinea

This week, I would like to relate the class topic of method of Anthropology, and the research ethics. As Anthropologists, they have to write many reports and ethnographies. While doing research and fieldwork, they follow a series of list to do a proper method of…

3-D Printing: The Risk Of Revolution

Scientists are attempting to use 3-D printing to create everything from architectural models to…