An Examination of Ethics in Science: Fake Careers in Epidemiology

This essay investigates the ethical issues surrounding fake careers in epidemiology. It begins with an introduction to epidemiology, explaining its importance in public health, and then explores the rise of fraudulent degrees and qualifications in the field. The essay highlights the impact of globalization on the spread of disease and the increasing number of fake degrees. It provides statistics on the issue, including the revenue generated by fraudulent activities and the actions taken by governments to address the problem. The essay analyzes the consequences of fake degrees, including the potential harm to patients due to a lack of proper medical knowledge. It also presents case studies and discusses the role of online distance education in contributing to the problem. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of ethical guidelines, scientific integrity, and government regulations in combating fake careers and protecting public health. It also touches upon the motivations behind obtaining fake degrees and suggests solutions to maintain ethical standards within the epidemiology field.

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Introduction
The study has focused on revealing the fake career epidemiology. The different statistics have
focused on the number of diseases increased in the individual as well as group. It also has
focused on me increasing number of fake careers in this particular field. Different strategies have
been adopted by the government for removing the legal issues in the epidemiology and maintain
the fake career. The key feature of epidemiology is to measure the disease outcomes about the
population at risk. The increasing amount of fake education and career in epidemiology has
become one of the threats in the largest number of elderly as well as young.
Epidemiology and medicine related fake careers
Epidemiology is a branch of medical science concerned with the spread and nature of infection
and disease (Boyer, 2018). The education in epidemiology involves different education as it will
help to examine the disease and cure the epidemic of an endemic stage. The study of
epidemiology consists of examining the condition exist in the disease according to the given
population. It also focuses on the prevalent in one population and not in the other which creates a
huge risk of spreading the disease among the population. Epidemiology is a fundamental study
for understanding the waterborne or airborne diseases. This can be understood by conducting a
laboratory test, and a few servers can minimize the risk factors for spreading it. Epidemiology is
more about statistical analysis of distribution and examining the trends of the medical aspects of
a condition in the body. The modern epidemiology is a broad subject and has a different
profession to understand it clearly.
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Figure 1: Increasing number of different types of epidemiology in men and women in the
UK.
(Source: Lai, 2014)
It is one of the important studies of epidemiology where people work to understand the higher
rates of mental issues, alcoholism, and cancer. In this study, people can understand the origin of
the disease and take further action. In this type of medical condition, people survey
understanding the genetic reason and the disease which is transferring from one person to
another. They also focus on understanding if it is a continuous disease. It is very important for
the person who is pursuing a career in the epidemiology to monitor the outbreak of the disease or
exam according to the season and region. This will meet the criteria for medical planning and
will also focus on curing the person quickly by improving his health condition. The area of study
reflects the digestive tract and blood system (Bruneau et al.,2017). This type of study is effective
for the people who are engaged in bio monitoring work at urine, bile, blood, semen, and others
different fluids for determining the cause of diseases or death.
One of the main causes of increasing of epidemiology borne career fadedness is the increase of
globalization. The globalization has resulted in the ease of communication and travel between
the countries and their continents. This has created one of the biggest challenges in the quantity
of infected of potential diseases from one person to another. In the modern era, several outbreaks
of diseases have increased. Viruses like Zia virus since 1905s is still now active and has recently
outbroken in Brazil in 2015-2016. More than 1000 people were infected with this disease, and
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the hemorrhagic fever has created many deaths. The increase of dengue fever and cancer has
increased which created a huge threat to life.
Nowadays, thousands of UK nationals are getting fake degrees from multi-million pounds
(Guevara, Hartmann, Aristarán, Mendoza, & Hidalgo, 2016). These students are generally from
Pakistan and Bangladesh. The number of fake degrees increased in specialties of medical health
only if one of the growing degrees in education of epidemiology is considered. After
epidemiology, the barriers include English consultants, nurses, and a large defense sector.
According to the recent survey from the public health and education, ethics and historical
development plus the ethical issues in the effective planning, implementation, and growth of the
variety of epidemic diseases in public health have increased by 12% if compared to 2014
(Tong,Davis, Eichenberger, Holland, & Fowler, 2015)
.
Figure 2: Percentage of fraud degree and the revenue earned by it.
(Source: Wenzel, 2017)
The growing number of fake degrees has created a huge problem for every government to think
about the health of the people in not only the UK but also in every part of the world. The
department of education has taken a strict decision and action for breaking down the degree of
fraud careers (Bertolote& Fleischmann, 2015). According to the market review, one British
buyer spend almost £5, 00,000 on fake documents and education. This has not only created a
huge problem in the IT Company but also in the medical industry. The number of deaths has
increased due to lack of proper treatment. It is obvious that a fake degree with no proper
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knowledge will not be able to cure the person are the disease that the person carries. It has been
identified that the famous university like Brooklyn Park University and Nixon University have
featured stock images of smiling students and have also given fake news articles singing
different praises for the institution. According to the documents seen by BBC radio force file on
four programs, more than 3000 fake qualifications was sold to the UK including the different
decrease in medical, engineering, PHDs and one of the most affected area is in the study of
epidemiology (Vercellini, Buggio, Viganò, &Somigliana, 2016). In the consultant at the London
Teaching Hospital, the person who got a degree in epidemiology was fake from Belford
University in 2007. Doctors who had previously been disciplined by the General Medical
Council of the railing to report the criminal conviction which has created the huge problem in the
medical department for not having authorized and proper knowledge for the treatment. It has
grown up every one of the very serious issues for the government. One of the reasons for
growing fake degree in Medical term is the online distance education. The government has
strictly prohibited online education and until and unless it has an affiliation and has made the
necessary target according to the government.
Doogie Howser was able to crack the best medical school of country and holder the degree at the
age of 21. Anoop Shankar has adopted the Ph.D. degree in epidemiology and has treated the
people with a wide range of research and a problem medicine (Nathan& DCCT, 2014). There
was a huge conviction for developing the Healthcare and improving the lines by following the
rules and regulations of epidemiology. However, the problem arises as the person did not get the
degree of Ph.D. from Harvard of India. The two of his Green Card has referred to testing to
world-class creativity, genius inside and new Avenue for treating hypertension.
This is one of the issues that has been highlighted in the BBC about pre-appointment review and
education for the medical terms. Nowadays it has been different as the number of immigrants is
not adopting the proper procedure which has created a huge fake degree. Many of the immigrants
visit the UK or any other parts of the world only for the degree. They do not mind if the degree is
fake or original they just need the degree so that they can return to their homeland and continue
the job. This is another reason for increasing fake degrees (Ioos al.,2014). Recently NBC spoke
with some of the family of people with all the probes, and they have also documented the story
of Shankar which has described as a bride minded in the poster for a career by life.
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The case of Shankar has exposed some profound dysfunction in the higher education which has
written the epic fruits and was equipped with the police investigation. After the investigation, the
police came to know that the number of fake education has increased since 2000. In response to
the different questions held by NBC news, it has helped to cover the complete and food public
statement by clearing the facts about speed records of education in epidemiology.
The case study has reflected upon promoting and maintaining high levels of scientific integrity in
the area of epidemiology, public health, and clinical research. This has focused on the violation
of scientific integrity due to the different activities and degrees that were held in the universities.
This type of action can cause direct harm to the individual and the population and can have a
negative impact on public trust. The relationship between ethics and epidemiology has helped the
international epidemiological association to follow few guidelines and ethics in different parts of
the world (Leong et al.,2015). According to the different universities in the UK, the scientific
integrity has included the development of study protocol and a detailed plan for scientific or
medical experiments and treatment for different diseases in epidemiology. According to the
government rules and regulations, the person who is holding MD degree from any university has
to face challenging exams for getting a job so that the desired person gets hired and eradicates
the fake degrees as much as possible. The concept of Public Health ethics about epidemiology is
concerned with the entire population in the entire world. It also focuses on the individuals that
have emphasized on the promotion of Health and prevention of disease and disability. Infocus
with the agreements of subjects of epidemiology different analysis and planning should be done
for maintaining the ethics.
Nowadays, documents prepared by members of public health discipline or depressant ITI
professional society has maintained high-value duties and virtues so that it can prevent the fake
career in epidemiology (Baxter et al.,2015). This has increased the health of an individual as well
as the group a lot by minimizing the dress and protecting the Welfare. However, different issues
have raised for developing the strategy and maintaining the public trust and obligation in the
community. According to the different colleges of UK, the resource planning and the improved
planning has minimized the risk and the ethical issues that are related to the epidemiology. This
has restricted the use of biological material condition in banks and has also controlled the
number of increasing fake education in the medical. The possibility of analyzing and testing with
the proper planning has clarified the study and the person who has focused on etiology by
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integrating the different studies of case-control and hospitals. According to the author (Bastien,
Poirier, Lemieux, &Després, 2014), the ethical issues in the epidemiological research has
excused the excusing rhetoric which is also focused on train arguments and debates (Victora et
al.,2016). The government is now trying to maintain the ethical issues by engaging different
objective and laws in the scientific work for the wealth and Social Justice. The fully
accomplished commitments have not yet. However, the government is still trying to focus on the
improvement of the health by minimizing the number of fake careers.
Motivations to the people for obtaining a fake degree in epidemiology also come from their
surroundings in which they grow or live. Humans are easily motivated by different rewards
which create the huge problem in the relationship, personal life, career, etc. Buying a fake
certificate and education qualification for epidemiology has helped them by providing a reminder
for the long-term goals (Hoste et al.2015). The fake degree will help the people to achieve a
good position in the job and will also be able to earn passive money which will help them in their
life.
According to me, providing a legal framework can bring effectiveness in the health. In my
opinion, different laws for ensuring privacy and protection in personal data. I would also
suggest that regulations can directly bring measures for new knowledge and development.
Strict ethical considerations for the guidelines of epidemiologist and benefits must be
accepted. I would opine to take strict action against the institutions who are adopting fake
degrees.No job opportunities for the fake career in every sector is justified (Parliament al.,
2016).
Conclusion
The different criteria and other factors have been included in the study which has helped to
understand the reason for the development of ethical issues in the epidemiological and fake
careers. The recent increase in the researching activities has created a concern in the health issues
with different legal problems in the environment. Different guidelines have been adopted now
for maintaining the fake career in epidemiology. The government is trying to undermine the
quality of establishing an evidence-based career with different strategies. The general overview
of ethical and legal principles has enabled the research for contacting best practices in the
market.
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