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A TALE OF TWO STUDIES: Ethics, Bioterrorism, and the Censorship of Science
Author(s) -
SELGEDID MICHAEL J.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.2007.0046
Subject(s) - censorship , government (linguistics) , national security , political science , research ethics , public relations , balance (ability) , position (finance) , public health , law , engineering ethics , psychology , business , medicine , engineering , philosophy , linguistics , nursing , finance , neuroscience
Some scientific research should not be published The risks to national security and public health override the social benefits of disseminating scientific results openly. Unfortunately, scientists themselves are not in a position to know which studies to withhold from public view, as the National Research Council has proposed. Yet neither can government alone be trusted to balance the competing interests at stake.