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The ethical codes of science In the last few years, our American colleagues – research workers in different /particular/ spheres of knowledge – are developing increased activity in ethical aspect. There are various initiatives, which serve as a clear expression of this. Special regulatory bodies such as Office of Scientific Integrity Review /OSIR/, Office of Inspector General /OIG/ are created in order to monitor the research process following the accepted standards for integrity and responsibility of conduct …

…and to preserve a favourable climate in the research community. This is realized in the process of creating, adopting and announcing an ethical code. The appearance of many variegated ethical codes in the research community is a sign for the researchers’ desire and willingness to manage with the ethical problems following their work. The codes are the first but decisive step of the more and more increasing in range and complexity regulatory process in science.