H5N1 Avian Flu RESEARCH and the Ethics of KNOWLEDGE
How can we best address the threat posed by dual-use research? By concentrating on the benefits of the knowledge and publishing it anyway? By keeping some of the research secret from the general public, making it available in full only to responsible scientists? Or by not publishing it—or, in some c...
| Published in: | Hastings Center Report |
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| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3953619 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23390001 https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.143 |
| Summary: | How can we best address the threat posed by dual-use research? By concentrating on the benefits of the knowledge and publishing it anyway? By keeping some of the research secret from the general public, making it available in full only to responsible scientists? Or by not publishing it—or, in some cases, not even conducting it at all? |
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