{"id":224,"date":"2009-02-19T03:29:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T03:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/02\/19\/on_ethical_conundrums\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T03:29:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T03:29:28","slug":"on_ethical_conundrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/02\/19\/on_ethical_conundrums\/","title":{"rendered":"On ethical conundrums"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took some advice<\/a> this morning and …<\/p>\n

\ndidn’t do an experiment.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nI decided my very young apprentices should take up the slack, and I’ve given them instructions. This is hard for me — I feel guilty because I’m getting someone else to do my work and having to trust people to get things right. That’s not a comment on the abilities of the people involved, it merely reflects my innate control freakishness.<\/p>\n

\nI’ve given one student some agar plates so that he can prepare DNA stocks of four constructs I made (and sequence them), and tomorrow I’m going to give him some HEKs to cross-link. My other slave<\/del> student is harvesting the knockdown I set up on Tuesday and will do the RT-PCR and Western blots. I did, however, agree to repeat a transfection experiment for one of the other post-docs next week. Maybe that tells you something about the sort of experiments I like.<\/p>\n

\nSo there’s a little bit of an ethical thing there: should I be letting\/telling other folk to do these rather than do them myself, and spend my time making sure the projects can be picked up, or should I actually be doing them myself?<\/p>\n

\nAnother question suddenly presented itself just now. I paid for some software and installed it on this (lab-owned) iMac (iWork<\/a> and Snapz Pro<\/a> off the top of my head: there might be more). Should I go through and find out what is registered to me and de-register it; just uninstall it (_and_ delete the registration details); or just forget about it all?<\/p>\n

\nAnd if I go for option one, where is the license information actually stored?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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