1. Politics/Ethics Ethics Smethics—The Laud Humphreys Approach
Yes you can study AIDS—unless you want funding

2. Ethics Definition: A code of conduct
agreement among a group as to the right way to conduct business

3. Ethics in Scientific Research
Voluntary participation
Do not harm participants
From these two comes “informed consent”
Anonymity vs. Confidentiality
Deception
Analysis and Reporting

4. Institutional Review Board
What is the IRB and what does it do?
Where is the IRB for UMD?
How does one obtain IRB approval?

5. Politics and Scientific Research
Differentiate from ethics
Aspects of Politics
Objectivity versus Ideology
Dominant American Political Ideologies
Conservative
Liberal
Radical
Can “intersubjectivity” save us?

6. Formal Political Intervention
Babbie  AIDS funding
Criminology  National Institute of Health conference on “Biological Correlates of Crime”

7. Recipe for an Empirical Paper
Introduction
Literature Review
Research Methods (Methodology)
Analysis
Conclusions/Discussion
Following the recipe matters!