The Freedom Of Scientific Research

Author : Simona Giordano,John Coggon,Marco Cappato
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849669016

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Scientific Freedom by Simona Giordano,John Coggon,Marco Cappato Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Scientific Freedom is the first comprehensive collection covering both the state of scientific progress and the ethics, law and history of scientific research. The book gives readers a fascinating range of perspectives on matters of scientific research that directly affect all of us. Examining the ethical, legal, social, economic and political issues surrounding freedom of scientific research, the book evaluates ways in which national and international policies can impact upon individuals' access to potentially life-saving treatment, cures and technologies, and can therefore affect human life and death. With contributions from Nobel Laureates, representatives of patients' associations, scientists, scholars and politicians, this book provides a concise and comprehensive view of the limitations and dangers facing the future of innovation and scientific progress.

Author : Simona Giordano,John Harris,Lucio Piccirillo
Publisher : Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Research
ISBN : 1526127679

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The Freedom of Scientific Research by Simona Giordano,John Harris,Lucio Piccirillo Pdf

The book asks: How are scientific developments impacting on human life and on the structure of societies? How is science regulated, and how should it be regulated? Are there ethical boundaries to scientific developments in some sensitive areas? (robotic intelligence, biosecurity?)

Author : Donald W. Braben
Publisher : Stripe Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781953953292

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Scientific Freedom by Donald W. Braben Pdf

A revolutionary and timely proposal for reinvigorating transformative scientific discovery, written by a preeminent leader in Venture Research. So rich was the scientific harvest of the early 20th century that it transformed entire industries and economies. Max Planck laid the foundation for quantum physics, Barbara McClintock for modern genetics, Linus Pauling for chemistry—the list goes on. In the 1970s, the nature of scientific work started to change. Increases in public funding for scientific research brought demands that spending be justified; a system of peer review that selected only the research proposals promising the greatest returns; and a push for endless short-term miracles instead of in-depth, boundary-pushing research. A vicious spiral of decline began. In Scientific Freedom, Donald W. Braben presents a framework to find and support cutting-edge, much-needed scientific innovation. Braben—who led British Petroleum’s Venture Research initiative, which aimed to identify and aid researchers challenging current scientific thinking—explains: —the conditions that catalyzed scientific research in the early 20th century; —the costs to society of our current research model; —the changing role of the university as a research institution; —how BP’s Venture Research initiative succeeded by minimizing bureaucracy and peer review, and the program’s impact; —the selection, budget, and organizational criteria for implementing a Venture Research program today. Even in the earliest stages, transformative and groundbreaking research can look unrecognizable to those who are accustomed to the patterns established by the past. Support for this research can, in fact, be low risk and offer rich rewards, but it requires rethinking the processes used to discover and sponsor scientists with groundbreaking ideas—and then giving those innovators the freedom to explore. First published in 2008, this new edition of Scientific Freedom is produced in a gorgeous archival quality hardcover with over 30 new illustrations and an up-to-date foreword by Donald Braben.

Author : Cosimo Marco Mazzoni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Academic freedom
ISBN : 3789028916

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Scientific Research in the U.S.A. by Cosimo Marco Mazzoni Pdf

Author : Chiara Lalli,Carmen Sorrentino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Research
ISBN : 8873940668

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Proceedings of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research by Chiara Lalli,Carmen Sorrentino Pdf

Author : Kevin Walby,Alex Luscombe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429794865

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Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design by Kevin Walby,Alex Luscombe Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume demonstrates how Freedom of Information (FOI) law and processes can contribute to social science research design across sociology, criminology, political science, anthropology, journalism and education. Comparing the use of FOI in research design across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada and South Africa, it provides readers with resources to carry out FOI requests and considers the influence such requests can have on debates within multiple disciplines. In addition to exploring how scholars can use FOI disclosures in conjunction with interview data, archival data and other datasets, this collection explains how researchers can systematically analyse FOI disclosures. Considering the challenges and dilemmas in using FOI processes in research, it examines the reasons why many scholars continue to rely on more easily accessible data, when much of the real work of governance, the more clandestine but consequential decisions and policy moves made by government officials, can only be accessed using FOI requests.

Author : Péter Hartl,Adam Tamas Tuboly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000345407

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Science, Freedom, Democracy by Péter Hartl,Adam Tamas Tuboly Pdf

This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors utilize various approaches to address this timely subject, including historical studies, philosophical analysis, and sociological case studies. The chapters cover a range of topics including academic freedom and autonomy, public control of science, the relationship between scientific pluralism and deliberative democracy, lay-expert relations in a democracy, and the threat of populism and autocracy to scientific inquiry. Taken together the essays demonstrate how democratic values and the epistemic and non-epistemic values associated with science are interconnected. Science, Freedom, Democracy will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of science, history of philosophy, sociology of science, political philosophy, and epistemology.

Author : Tibor R. Machan
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817929428

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Liberty and Research and Development by Tibor R. Machan Pdf

The contributors to this volume explore the implications of government funding of scientific research and offer alternatives to the heavy reliance on government support that research and development (R&D) currently enjoys. Each author squarely confronts the problems arising from the idea that government funding of R&D is and ought to be the norm.

Author : Helle Porsdam
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781512822946

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Science as a Cultural Human Right by Helle Porsdam Pdf

The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone’s right to “share in scientific advancement and its benefits” and to “enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.” This right also requires state parties to develop and disseminate science, to respect the freedom of scientific research, and to recognize the benefits of international contacts and co-operation in the scientific field. The right to science has never been more important. Even before the COVID-19 health crisis, it was evident that people around the world increasingly rely on science and technology in almost every sphere of their lives from the development of medicines and the treatment of diseases, to transport, agriculture, and the facilitation of global communication. At the same time, however, the value of science has been under attack, with some raising alarm at the emergence of “post-truth” societies. “Dual use” and unintended, because often unforeseen, consequences of emerging technologies are also perceived to be a serious risk. The important role played by science and technology and the potential for dual use makes it imperative to evaluate scientific research and its products not only on their scientific but also on their human rights merits. In Science as a Cultural Human Right, Helle Porsdam argues robustly for the role of the right to science now and in the future. The book analyzes the legal stature of this right, the potential consequences of not establishing it as fundamental, and its connection to global cultural rights. It offers the basis for defending the free and responsible practice of science and ensuring that its benefits are spread globally.

Author : Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015069316357

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Silenced! by Bruce E. Johansen Pdf

This book is about people whose beliefs and affiliations have opposed powerful interests in the present-day United States. This eclectic group of people and controversial issues, from climate-change scientists who have been censored by the Bush administration to Muslims accused of terrorism, have one thing in common. All of them straddle the limits of what Noam Chomsky has called permissible debate as defined by dominant political and economic institutions and individuals. The central thesis is that restriction of free inquiry is harmful to our culture because it inhibits the search for knowledge. Johansen presents case studies in the borderlands of free speech in a Jeffersonian cast—an intellectual framework assuming that open debate—even of unpopular ideas—is essential to accurate perception of reality. This book is about people whose ideological circumstances have found them opposing established beliefs in our times—scholars advocating the Palestinian cause in a very hostile intellectual environment, for example, as well as climate scientists defending themselves against the de-funding of their laboratories by defenders of fossil-fuel interests; opponents of creation science under assault for teaching what once was regarded as household-variety biology (a.k.a. Darwinism); Marxists in a political system dominated by neoconservatives. The central thesis that unites this diverse array of controversies is that shutting down free inquiry—most notably for points of view deemed unpopular—dumbs us all down by restraining the search for knowledge, which demands open inquiry. We have been told when going to war, as in Iraq, that freedom isn't free, the unstated assumption being that our armed forces are fighting and dying to safeguard our civil rights at home and abroad. During recent years, however, freedom to inquire and debate without retribution has been under assault in the United States. This assault has been carried out under a distinctly Orwellian cast, under Newspeak titles such as the Patriot Act, parts of which might as well be described more honestly as the Restriction of Freedom of Inquiry Act. The information gathered here will interest (and probably anger) anyone who is concerned with protecting robust, free inquiry in a nation that takes seriously its freedom to speak out, and to define truth through open debate.

Author : Audra J. Wolfe
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421439082

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Freedom's Laboratory by Audra J. Wolfe Pdf

Closing in the present day with a discussion of the 2017 March for Science and the prospects for science and science diplomacy in the Trump era, the book demonstrates the continued hold of Cold War thinking on ideas about science and politics in the United States.

Author : H. Wagenvoort
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401190992

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Freedom and Restriction in Science and its Aspects in Society by H. Wagenvoort Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1020472429

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The Freedom of Scientific Research in the Face of Political and Societal Demands by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy,Committee on Responsible Science
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309391252

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Fostering Integrity in Research by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy,Committee on Responsible Science Pdf

The integrity of knowledge that emerges from research is based on individual and collective adherence to core values of objectivity, honesty, openness, fairness, accountability, and stewardship. Integrity in science means that the organizations in which research is conducted encourage those involved to exemplify these values in every step of the research process. Understanding the dynamics that support â€" or distort â€" practices that uphold the integrity of research by all participants ensures that the research enterprise advances knowledge. The 1992 report Responsible Science: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process evaluated issues related to scientific responsibility and the conduct of research. It provided a valuable service in describing and analyzing a very complicated set of issues, and has served as a crucial basis for thinking about research integrity for more than two decades. However, as experience has accumulated with various forms of research misconduct, detrimental research practices, and other forms of misconduct, as subsequent empirical research has revealed more about the nature of scientific misconduct, and because technological and social changes have altered the environment in which science is conducted, it is clear that the framework established more than two decades ago needs to be updated. Responsible Science served as a valuable benchmark to set the context for this most recent analysis and to help guide the committee's thought process. Fostering Integrity in Research identifies best practices in research and recommends practical options for discouraging and addressing research misconduct and detrimental research practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : France
ISBN : 0271040130

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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution by Anonim Pdf