Abstract
In the 6 years I have been writing this column, one piece stands out as having had the greatest response. It whizzed round university campuses like wildfire. It described simple and obvious concerns about ethics in social science research (Robinson, 1996). Apparently, it came as news to many that asking questions was not necessarily harmless. Everyone, it seemed, was concocting their own little questionnaire, and because they weren’t taking blood or biopsies, assumed there could be no ethical problems. Those who applied for approval to any of the three research committees I sat on soon learned otherwise… I was simply insisting on the same standards of quality and ethics for social science as for clinical research.
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