Bok S
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 1995 Mar;5(1):1-17. doi: 10.1353/ken.0.0116.
I want to argue for two propositions. First, I suggest that what some researchers may take to be a simple trade-off between minor violations of the truth for the sake of access to far greater truths represents a profound miscalculation with far-reaching and cumulative reverberations. Second, I submit that today's research environment, as demanding, competitive, and sometimes bewildering as it is, offers genuine scope for what Murdoch calls truth-seeking, for imaging and questioning, and for relating to facts through both truth and truthfulness; but that, in so doing, it presents hard choices with respect to methods, and, in turn, to personal integrity--not only in particular research projects but also with respect to that fragile research environment in its own right.
我想论证两个观点。其一，我认为一些研究者可能视为在为获取更重大的真相而对真相进行轻微违背之间进行的简单权衡，实则是一种严重的误判，会产生深远且累积的影响。其二，我认为当今的研究环境尽管要求严苛、竞争激烈且有时令人困惑，但它为默多克所称的寻求真相、进行想象与质疑以及通过真相和真实来与事实建立联系提供了真正的空间；然而，在这样做的过程中，它在方法方面，进而在个人操守方面，都带来了艰难的抉择——不仅在特定的研究项目中如此，而且就其本身脆弱的研究环境而言也是如此。
