BioeditorialBioethics and scientific integrity

Abstract

The emergence of ethical approaches, as well as the current regression towards moral dogma-tisms, in the field of scientific research, is generated thanks to the crisis of ethics and morality in the research environment. In recent years, the discourse on scientific integrity has been proli-fic, which has linked it with ethical aspects of the researcher’s work and related to (good or bad) practices and (good or bad) behaviors arising within the processes of investigation. If scientific integrity is conceived in this way, that is, as an element that evaluates, judges, measures, coer-ces  and  punishes  the  bad  practices  of  the  researcher,  the  concept  is  being  limited  from  its  na-ture. Thus, the following questions arise: why scientific integrity and not only integrity? Why give a surname when integrity is holistic in its essence and principle?