That seems reasonable but test it with an extreme example - if a scientist worked out how to make a mobile phone into a lethal weapon, as a scientist his conscience would be clear in announcing the details but as a human he would know suddenly he would be arming most of the population of the wealthier nations.TDludo wrote:Yeah, of course. Scientific progress has always been an adventure into the unknown, there is no other way. And science is not good or evil, only people are with the applications. Science and ethics are different things...bigmoog wrote: the future, this is all about tomorrow, and what we will know
That said I really 'king hate, loath and despise journalists that twist the fact that scientists don't know the outcome of an experiment to present it as admitting the worst outcomes are possible. I don't know who I'm going to meet when I walk down the street but with this logic I should expect to meet an axe-wielding murderer as I can't rule that out.
Mind you - scientists really need to communicate better, they can't simply blame the media…
Ooooh me arse hurts - must be all this sitting on fences