Assignment 2a: Research Simulation Value This assignment is worth 45 marks: 15% of your total course grade. Background This assignment is designed to help you hone your research and critical thinking

List of Pre -selected Research Topics 1. Henrietta Lacks and Lacks’ ‘HeLa’ cells 2. The ‘Texas Vampires’ 3. Wakefield vaccine disinformation 4. Vaccine non -compliance 5. Replication (reproducibility) crisis in social psychology 6. Theranos biotech scandal 7. Joachim Boldt research fabrication 8. Paolo Macchiarini research fabrication and deaths (covered in season 3 of the Dr. Death podcast) 9. Ethics of using placebos in medical research (e.g. drug trials)