Sentence examples for scientific probity from inspiring English sources

Critics of his investigation into the scientific probity of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia will hold that haste against him.

Later still the peer-reviewed scientific journal came to be regarded as something close to holy, the embodiment of human knowledge in an age of rapid advances and the guardian of scientific probity.

In Crews's view, these people have created a Photoshopped image of superhuman scientific probity and moral rectitude, and it's important to take their hero down to human size — or maybe, in compensation for all the years of hype, a size or two smaller.

Such an information resource could be based on a database containing standardised information for each trial relating to the purpose of the trial; the interventions being compared; the implications of participation for participants; and features indicative of scientific quality and ethical probity.

There was a consensus that people should be able to be confident about the quality of any trial they might agree to participate in, but it was widely recognised that relatively few people would currently be able to judge the scientific quality or ethical probity of a trial for themselves on the basis of the information they are typically given for recruitment purposes.

We grouped these into the following categories: (a) the interventions being compared; (b) the implications of trial participation for participants; (c) the scientific or methodological quality of a trial; (d) the ethical probity and governance of a trial; and (e) contact details.

The most obvious features suggested were that a trial had been through an independent peer review process (a check on scientific quality) and that it had been assessed and approved by an independent ethics committee (a check on ethical probity).

His probity.

And probity.

Their own probity is unquestioned.

But probity is non-negotiable.