Research involving identifiable people, intervention, recruitment or sensitive human-subject data requires an explicit ethics assessment before collection. Where formal institutional review is required, work does not proceed under a claim that Lab review substitutes for an IRB/REC.
Use must follow the agreed purpose, access limits, publication boundary, retention period and applicable legal/contractual obligations. Public examples must not reveal restricted material.
Financial, professional, personal or institutional conflicts material to a research object are disclosed in that object’s record where appropriate.
Funding or commissioning does not permit a false evidence label. Review, publication and suppression rights are documented before work begins.
Findings that create credible security, privacy or safety risks may require controlled disclosure rather than immediate publication.
Synthetic or simulated evidence is labelled as such and is never presented as observed production, administrative or official data.
Credit follows substantive accepted contribution. Reviewer, contributor, reproducer, host and funder roles are distinguished rather than collapsed into “team.”
Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, undisclosed substitution of evidence, or manipulation of the public record triggers investigation and may require correction, withdrawal or retraction.
Questions about ethics, conflicts or sensitive research may be raised through the research contact. Public source/value errors should normally use the public issue route.