SCIENCE - Scientists' powers and ways they shouldn't use them: Obligations of scientists (part 2)

In this post, we’re returning to a discussion we started back in September about whether scientists have special duties or obligations to society (or, if the notion of “society” seems too fuzzy and ill-defined to you, to the other people who are not scientists with whom they share a world) in virtue of being scientists. You may recall that, in the post where we set out some groundwork for the discussion , I offered one reason you might think t ...

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