Pack up the parachute: why global north–south collaborations need to change – Nature (Virginia Gewin | July 2023)
Any unbiased reflection on the ethics of parachute research will conclude that it is ethically challenging and concerning. The practice of conducting research that wouldn’t be acceptable in your own jurisdiction in a poorer and more desperate country is, at best exploitative and, at worst rampant colonialism in research treating populations as lab rats for the benefit primarily in more developed countries. Research institutions, funding bodies and publishers need to take a strong stand when a researcher is obviously engaging in this kind of morally bankrupt behaviour.