Digging Into the Roots of Research Ethics

How a Canadian ethnobotanist became a champion of research that advances the lot of indigenous peoples

A recent spate of scandals in science suggests that researchers often risk violating ethical standards to advance their personal or professional standing.

Kelly P. Bannister, an ethnobotanist at the University of Victoria here, has risked quite a bit in precisely the opposite direction. As a graduate student in the late 1990s, she twice bucked norms of science to deter

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