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ensure accuracy. RESPONSIBLE SCIENCE: Ensuring the Integrity of
the Research Process years, the absence of formal statements by
research institutions of the principles that should guide
research conducted by their members has prompted criticism that
scientists and their institutions lack a clearly identifiable
means to ensure the integrity of the research process. FACTORS
AFFECTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH PRACTICES In all of
science, but with unequal emphasis in the several disciplines,
inquiry proceeds based on observation and experimentation, the
exercising of informed judgment, and the development of theory.
Research practices are influenced by a variety of factors,
including: The general norms of science; The nature of
particular scientific disciplines and the traditions of
organizing a specific body of scientific knowled