Reconciling Regulation with Scientific Autonomy in Dual-Use Research

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In debates over the regulation of communication related to dual-use research, the risks that such communication creates must be weighed against against the value of scientific autonomy. The censorship of such communication seems justifiable in certain cases, given the potentially catastrophic applications of some dual-use research. This conclusion however, gives rise to another kind of danger: that regulators will use overly simplistic cost-benefit analysis to rationalize excessive regulation of scientific research. In response to this, we show how institutional design principles and normative frameworks from free speech theory can be used to help extend the argument for regulating dangerous dual-use research beyond overly simplistic cost-benefit reasoning, but without reverting to an implausibly absolutist view of scientific autonomy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:47

Enthalten in:

The Journal of medicine and philosophy - 47(2022), 1 vom: 08. Feb., Seite 72-94

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Evans, Nicholas G [VerfasserIn]
Selgelid, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Simpson, Robert Mark [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Dual-use research
Free speech
Journal Article
Public health
Scientific autonomy

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Date Completed 10.05.2022

Date Revised 10.05.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/jmp/jhab041

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM336695209