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When research partners disagree about the ethics of their public health study

My research partner and I have been collecting data on vaccine hesitancy in rural communities for eight months and we keep having the same argument about whether we're actually helping these people or just treating them like subjects to study. We both care about the work but I think we've stopped being honest about what we're seeing because it doesn't fit our original hypothesis.

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You and your research partner can't stay honest about whether you're helping people or just studying them.

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