You have just completed gathering a large amount of data on the plant matter in an area of the Pantanal wetlands. You have begun analyzing the data to see if the data gives any insights into drugs that may be produced from the plants to cure various diseases. You have already found one promising result.
However, your dissertation adviser, who also runs the lab where you are doing your analysis, tells you to turn over your data to a major pharmaceutical company. He does this because he reported your first promising result to this pharmaceutical company and inspired them to do their own analysis and because they also have provided his lab with millions in research grants in past years. But your dissertation adviser does not tell you this, just that your data set is too large for you to analyze and that research ethics state you should cooperate with others and they have more staff to get the work done quicker. You, on the other hand, begin to hold back information and hide data so that it cannot be turned over. Is anyone in the wrong?
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