Benue State University, Makurdi

Relevance of Ethics in the Physical Sciences in Contemporary Insecure Society

Terfa Kahaga Anjov, PhD

Abstract

There is no doubt that the world we live in is a world of contraries. To a layperson, both sides are parallel without a meeting point. The critical thinker and philosopher, the opposites are two sides of a coin. Each side is necessary for the coin to have value and to be used as a valuable material. Efforts are made to identify the perennial conflicts of interest in the ethicist and the physical scientist who is in the service of humanity around the world. This article aims at interrogating the interactive effect of ethics on physical scientists as they respond to recent happening in the world of science. It is discovered that the product of the physical scientist are cherished because they are value-based. The facts of the physical scientist are values to the ethicists. This reality is evident in available codes of ethics in different professions. Any attempt to prefer one over and above the other would lead to a state of disequilibrium. The consequences of such preferences are grave as can be seen in the unethical release of the Coronavirus from China. This concludes that ethics is allencompassing. No progress can be said to be made without passing the result of action through the lenses of ethical evaluation. It is critical to make ethics a formidable guide to the production of outcomes in scientific processes.

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