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Ethics & accountability · Ethical pushback

During a design-verification test, a colleague suggests re-running a failing biocompatibility sample “because it was probably a lab artifact” and only reporting the passing result. What do you say and do?

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I push back directly: we don’t get to delete a failing biocompatibility result and keep only the pass — that’s data integrity, and the whole point of design verification is that the record reflects what actually happened.…

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