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Conclusion

Research is primarily a self-driven and self-satisfying human enterprise, which has social
extensions. The present scenario has unfortunately transformed research as a market-driven
activity, which may generate wealth but often at the cost of the self-satisfying pleasure of discovery
(Paul, 2018). Research integrity and ethical conduct are essential for researchers to really enjoy
the pleasure of discovering something and of knowing the unknown. In order to achieve this, it is
necessary that the future researchers are adequately primed about research integrity and ethics at
their formative age. Effective training of enthusiastic young researchers in good ethical practices
is as important as training them effectively in their chosen disciplines. The administrators need to
create a conducive and healthy competitive environment that encourages creativity and novelty,
while the evaluators need to learn to differentiate between quantity and quality. Personal integrity is
essential at all levels.
The well-known evolutionary biologist G. G. Simpson (1950) stated, “It is one of the many unique
qualities of man, the new sort of animal, that he is the only ethical animal. The ethical need and its
fulfilment are also products of evolution, but they have been produced in man alone.” The human
society owes it to evolution to respect and maintain this unique feature.

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