Dangerous Practices of Sovereign Science: "Little has been done to alter a pattern in which scientists decide for themselves what risky research is warranted, and confront controversy only after the work is done and disseminated."
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“When outsiders have raised concerns, scientific experts have tended to dismiss them as expressions of ignorance. Ambivalence from within science tends to be suppressed lest it imply to outsiders that science cannot adequately regulate itself.”
"Was the virus that has wrecked such damage on humanity brought into being upon a laboratory bench? The simple fact of the matter is, the established norms of international scientific make this scenario plausible."
"That it is even thinkable that a single mistake by an individual researcher could be the genesis of this global disaster demonstrates the urgency of a serious, public appraisal, not just of the risks of GOF research, but of the notion and norms of scientific sovereignty"
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