IAMC Statement of Scientific Integrity
- The objectivity, non-partisanship and scientific rigour of the activities undertaken by the IAMC are our most important assets. IAMC is committed to transparency regarding its sources of funding. IAMC accepts that its sponsors and the beneficiaries of its activities, as well as the general public, have a legitimate right to know of any factors that might cause any risk of bias in its activities. To the extent that IAMC is also active in discussion about policy matters of public interest, we are committed also to promoting the highest standards of integrity in public debate. IAMC is also committed to ensuring that its scientific reputation is not used to give unwarranted authority to purely partisan assertions.
- Consistent with these principles, the IAMC Scientific Steering Committee declares:
a) IAMC holds no institutional views on matters of public policy and seeks to impose no such views on its members and participants in its activities, each of whom is free to draw conclusions based on scientific evidence and his/her own value judgments and to publish such conclusions when and where s/he judges appropriate. All such conclusions and opinions remain the exclusive responsibility of the authors concerned.
b) In accepting funding from sponsors for the purposes of conducting its activities, IAMC cannot make any advance commitments as to the conclusions to be drawn from the research discussed in the platforms offered by the IAMC.
c) In accepting funding from a sponsor, IAMC cannot undertake to promote the views of the sponsor that are not scientifically founded during public events organized by IAMC or in its communications.
d) IAMC will publish on its website a list, to be updated at the end of each calendar year, of all sources of funding greater than EUR 30,000 in cash or in-kind.
e) IAMC, in all its activities, will foster a culture of diversity and inclusion, open scientific debate, and rigorous peer review.
- Similarly, IAMC expects from each of its members and participants in its activities:
a) That s/he will maintain the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and collegiality in the conduct of research and peer review.
b) That s/he will not allow the conduct or the conclusions of that research to be influenced by non-scholarly (e.g. commercial or political) interests, arguments or preferences, including those of any sources of institutional and/or individual funding s/he may have received.
c) That, in the interests of transparency about any possible conflict of interest, s/he will mention in research publications and other public studies the institutions funding this work.
d) That s/he will make her/his best effort to ensure that any dissemination of his/her research in non-scientific media (press, television, internet blogs, etc.) does not misrepresent or distort the scientific conclusions of that research.
(This statement was approved by the IAMC Scientific Steering Committee on October 16th, 2023)