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The American sociologist Robert K. Merton has argued that science is underpinned by four moral elements: communalism (where scientists give up intellectual property rights in exchange for recognition and esteem), universalism (where truth is evaluated in terms of universal criteria), disinterestedness (where scientists are rewarded for acting in ways that appear to be selfless) and organized scepticism (where all ideas must be tested and are subject to rigorous, structured, community scrutiny) [1]. To put it more simply, scientific advances involve sharing and peer review of research questions that have been objectively tested.
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Groves, T. (2018). Open Access Journals. In: Sahni, P., Aggarwal, R. (eds) Reporting and Publishing Research in the Biomedical Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7062-4_19
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