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==Planning an experiment==
Maybe have a  look at [[w:Scientific method]] first, and make some notes
about your  intended experiment, it is unlikely to be reasonable at this
time  for you to plan an experiment here.

==Technical 'how to'==
It'  also worth reviewing [[w:Blind experiment]] for information on why
it's   probably best for some experiments to retain some information in
private   until results are published ('Blind experiments are an important
tool   of the scientific method').  

=='The ethics of breaching ethics' - describing several  possible ethical lapses==
The word ethics is used to describe  adherence to proper conduct and
morality. In breaching agreed ethics a  person is immediately guilty of
improper conduct. 

===Moral  duty===
Often  the particulars of ethics may be in dispute, is one thing proper
conduct   or is another thing proper conduct. A breach of ethics with such
a  view is a rebellious sort, a statement of right and wrong and, as
viewed   by the offending party, the fulfillment of a moral obligation
regardless  of the  consequnces.

===Immorality===
Breaching  ethics without the view that actions are morally correct or
with the  view that moral conduct is unimportant or should not be adhered
to  is immoral conduct.

===Significance===
Often in defining a  breach of ethical conduct an allusion is made to the
significance of  an act, i.e. perhaps an act is so insignificant that it
did not  breach ethics, was committed innocently in play.