unethical
Americanadjective
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lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct.
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not in accord with the standards of a profession.
She treated patients outside the area of her training, and the appropriate medical organization punished her unethical behavior.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- unethicality noun
- unethically adverb
- unethicalness noun
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And it says its agency is being set up precisely to make sure there are "guardrails in place to avoid an unethical impact of AI".
From BBC
However, the idea of drilling holes in patients for a placebo is widely considered unethical, including by regulators in Europe, according to Schwartz.
From MarketWatch
That’s because recruiting patients with a rare and debilitating disease for a placebo trial can be difficult and unethical.
“We believe such a study would be challenging to execute and potentially unethical,” wrote Mizuho Securities analysts, who downgraded their rating of Uniqure’s stock to neutral.
The World Health Organization called the trial unethical and questioned its scientific merit.
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