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How to navigate ethical conflicts when teams discover problematic funding sources

Our research team has been working on this project for eighteen months and we just found out the funding comes from a defense contractor, and half of us want to quit immediately while the other half thinks we can still do good science within these constraints, and nobody knows how to have this conversation without destroying relationships.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A group of professionals must reconcile their individual moral boundaries with their collective investment in work that may compromise their values.

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