Healthy Skepticism

Recently, the idea of an erosion of public trust in science has become its own soundbite, regularly repeated without qualifications or empirical support. The issue explores a wide range of topics across fields of science, including oversights in biomedical research, digital regulation, the role of h...

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Published inAmerican scientist Vol. 109; no. 4; p. 194
Main Author Saunders, Fenella
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Research Triangle Park Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society 01.07.2021
Sigma XI-The Scientific Research Society
Subjects
Ethics
Genomes
Medical research
Public health
Science
Scientists
Trust
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ISSN0003-0996
1545-2786
DOI10.1511/2021.109.4.194

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Summary:Recently, the idea of an erosion of public trust in science has become its own soundbite, regularly repeated without qualifications or empirical support. The issue explores a wide range of topics across fields of science, including oversights in biomedical research, digital regulation, the role of humans in the natural world, and what our efforts to contact intelligent life elsewhere say about our own culture. [...]our authors explore the ethics of the scientific enterprise more broadly, exploring how missing genome research hampers science, arguing that scientific objectivity does not prevent researchers from acting on consequences of their work, engaging underserved communities in public health, putting people first in human-subject research, looking at the toll of calling out unethical work, and reconsidering what inclusive academic environments should look like.
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ISSN:0003-0996
1545-2786
DOI:10.1511/2021.109.4.194