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Mentoring and ethical beliefs in graduate education in science

Commentary on ‘influences on the ethical beliefs of graduate students concerning research’ (Sprague, Daw and Roberts)

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Correspondence to Rachelle D. Hollander Ph.D..

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In the interest of full disclosure, I note that the U.S. National Science Foundation program I manage helped to support the research of Sprague, Daw and Roberts. This article contains the author’s opinions alone, not those of the NSF.

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Hollander, R.D. Mentoring and ethical beliefs in graduate education in science. SCI ENG ETHICS 7, 521–524 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-001-0009-7

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