学協会シンポジウム「科学と社会と「研究公正」」
研究不正と社会の関係
幹細胞研究におけるSTAP細胞を例として
2016 年 2016 巻 67 号 p. 96-109
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2016 年 2016 巻 67 号 p. 96-109
In Japan, the problem of research inaccuracies, especially in the life science field, has received wide attention. As a result, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology improved guidelines for guideline of the research justice defined in 2006, producing new guidelines in 2014. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare also produced new guidelines. However, I consider skeptically whether we can solve a research inaccuracy problem by mandating ethics education, or tightening rules. I argue that a fundamental issue for the methodology of life science research and for the kind of social changes life science research will bring, is research injustice. In this paper, I outline from my own experience the actual conditions governing research within the life sciences - focussing particularly on regenerative medicine - and bring out the wider implications.
