Federal mandates that students on training grants be taught ethics encourage schools to do
something, but that something is far more likely to resemble a two-hour session in platitudes and
warnings or a lecture course in the conventions of science, than a 20-hour course that includes formalized
training in ethics. Discussions with teachers of ethics in science at other centers indicates that many use
perks (or bribes), such as serving lunch to students, to induce them to take ethics seminars. Such perks
may help increase student attendance, but they will not help students become serious about the
importance of studying ethics