tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post9112313824823552611..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Fierce addendumAnne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-19524241470484269602010-04-22T17:26:35.558-04:002010-04-22T17:26:35.558-04:00Readers who are interested, there's a very nic...Readers who are interested, there's a very nice video about this story on the NY Times front page. Whether it will be accessible after today, we don't know.<br /><br />This is clearly in part a sociopolitical story, about exploitation and so on. Unfortunately, or fortunately, politics does play a role in science, and it is not an untoward role. Scientists need to learn that we are not free to do whatever we would like to do, when it involves subjects in our, or other, populations.<br /><br />When issues of social inequity wane, as we hope they someday will, then the same actions by scientists would not be the subject of such objections and law-suits. <br /><br />In most case, perhaps not much in the way of scientific advance will occur. But sometimes it hopefully will, and in any case, the study subjects will feel participatory and beneficiary, rather than guinea pigs.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.com