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conflicts of interest

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conflicts of interest
the ethical situation that arises when, for example, a veterinarian who practices and also conducts a pharmacy finds that his/her enthusiasm for merchandising is competing with his/her professional interest in being as accurate as possible diagnostically.


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The title is a guide created to provide advice to editors on the major ethical principles of academic publishing, including transparency, disclosure, research integrity, peer review, conflicts of interest and plagiarism.
The Education Department's inspector general released a report that exposed favoritism, conflicts of interest, and mismanagement at "Reading First," a billion-dollar program created by the No Child Left Behind Act, notes The Washington Post.
Gil Garcetti should know well the danger of conflicts of interest, even apparent ones.
 
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