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The answer to your question really depends on how much work required justifying their claim. In my personal experience: It was many times that a referee provided me with an argument that lead to a ...

Michael Harris has written some blog posts on ethical aspects of mathematics. There is also an opinion piece by Tom Leinster about ethical questions arising for mathematicians working for ...

Here's an article from the 1980's on the AMS voting to turn down Reagan-era Star Wars funding in math: https://www.the-scientist.com/news/math-society-votes-down-funding-by-sdi-military-62998 Bill ...

Maurice Chiodo is someone I am aware of regularly writing on ethics. Here's one starting point: https://ethics.maths.cam.ac.uk/pub

The Just Mathematics Collective maintains a list of resources related to ethics in mathematics. One of those resources is itself a list of resources, an Ethics in Mathematics reading list by Allison N ...

At the upcoming Joint Mathematics Meeting in Denver, January 2020, there will be an AMS Committee on the Profession Panel Discussion: Mathematics and Ethics, Wednesday 15th. It might be worthwhile ...

Rejection is mostly a negative experience for the author. I have however experienced two rejections for which I am very grateful: My first experience is a paper which got rejected mainly (I think) for ...

In November, the American Mathematical Society will publish A Conversation on Professional Norms in Mathematics. Here is some information from the AMS website: Edited by Mathilde Gerbelli-Gauthier: ...

Ethics in the practice or use of mathematics is often addressed indirectly by mathematicians. Below I give three examples that come to mind, the first expounded in more detail than the others (because ...

Alexandre Grothendieck talked a lot about ethics when a member of the group Survivre et Vivre. He also made a famous speech at CERN , entitled "allons nous continuer la recherche scientifique&...

Oliver Rosten published a paper On functional representations of the conformal algebra in the European Physical Journal in 2017. In the acknowledgements section he included the following in reference ...

The August 2024 edition of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society contains the article by Maurice Chiodo and Dennis Müller, A Field Guide to Ethics in Mathematics. It has close to two dozen ...

Jonathan Korman (a mathematician) and Wing-Yee Tong (an artist) coauthored The NSA and the Social Responsibility of Mathematicians in the December 2016 issue of The Mathematical Intelligencer. It ...