You work for a pharmaceutical company, and your manager asks you to manipulate test results to make a new drug appear safer than it actually is. What should you do?
Comply with your manager's request to avoid conflict
Report the unethical request to a higher authority or the company's ethics hotline
Manipulate the results but keep a copy of the original data for your records.
Refuse to participate and quit your job immediately.
Option B is the most ethical choice. Manipulating test results to misrepresent the safety of a drug is not only unethical but also potentially illegal. Reporting the request to a higher authority or the company's ethics hotline is the right course of action to maintain your integrity and uphold ethical standards in the pharmaceutical industry. hence option b is correct.