Scientific Research and the Public Trust |
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Authors: | David B Resnik |
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Institution: | (1) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Box 12233, Mail Drop CU 03, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA |
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Abstract: | This essay analyzes the concept of public trust in science and offers some guidance for ethicists, scientists, and policymakers
who use this idea defend ethical rules or policies pertaining to the conduct of research. While the notion that public trusts
science makes sense in the abstract, it may not be sufficiently focused to support the various rules and policies that authors
have tried to derive from it, because the public is not a uniform body with a common set of interests. Well-focused arguments
that use public trust to support rules or policies for the conduct of research should specify (a) which public is being referred
to (e.g. the general public or a specific public, such as a particular community or group); (b) what this public expects from
scientists; (c) how the rule or policy will ensure that these expectations are met; and (d) why is it important to meet these
expectations. |
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