Examines William Beaumont's gastroenterology experiments from an ethical standpoint.

Explains the importance of informed consent and beneficence.

Illustrates how ethically questionable data collection occurs in daily life.

Explains how k-anonymity can be used to conceal people's identities in a dataset, and presents the case of the Golden State Killer's identification via genetic big data to draw attention to the issue of consent in data collection.

Gives examples of some ways scientists can try increasing the replicability of experiments and studies.