“That said, there is a lesson in Asilomar for all of science: the best way to respond to concerns created by emerging knowledge or early-stage technologies is for scientists from publicly-funded institutions to find common cause with the wider public about the best way to regulate — as early as possible.
“That said, there is a lesson in Asilomar for all of science: the best way to respond to concerns created by emerging knowledge or early-stage technologies is for scientists from publicly-funded institutions to find common cause with the wider public about the best way to regulate — as early as possible.
Once scientists from corporations begin to dominate the research enterprise, it will simply be too late.”
If you are correct, it IS simply too late. I see no difference between “public institutions” (read government) and corporations other than the ability of the govt to legally use force of arms to impose their will on the public. Please show me any meaningful (other than a pitifully small) percentage of doctors and “scientists” and public institutions that are not corrupted. The last 4 years have shown to all but the willfully blind that “science”, “scientists” of all stripes, and all of our public institutions and government are for sale.
“That said, there is a lesson in Asilomar for all of science: the best way to respond to concerns created by emerging knowledge or early-stage technologies is for scientists from publicly-funded institutions to find common cause with the wider public about the best way to regulate — as early as possible.
Once scientists from corporations begin to dominate the research enterprise, it will simply be too late.”
If you are correct, it IS simply too late. I see no difference between “public institutions” (read government) and corporations other than the ability of the govt to legally use force of arms to impose their will on the public. Please show me any meaningful (other than a pitifully small) percentage of doctors and “scientists” and public institutions that are not corrupted. The last 4 years have shown to all but the willfully blind that “science”, “scientists” of all stripes, and all of our public institutions and government are for sale.