research advisor comes to lab for a weekly update on progress, this student presents his data on the purified materials and reports a 75% yield. The research advisor and this student have already published 3 papers based on this result.
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After only a few days in your new lab, you notice that one of the senior students is quite open about what appears to be many questionable experimental practices: he does not really keep a notebook, but numbers a new page for each reaction he performs and scribbles out a little information about what he had done, sometimes only the date and the starting time...By now, his practices are quite well known in your particular lab room, and a number of jokes and asides by your labmates affirm your perceptions. Indeed, even the senior student has been heard to quip: "If I had done this the right way, I think the yield would have been 75%." When your research advisor comes to lab for a weekly update on progress, this student presents his data on the purified materials and reports a 75% yield. The research advisor and this student have already published 3 papers based on this result.
Who is potentially affected by this student's behavior?
Who is responsible for the student's behavior?
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