Reposted by StephenHilgartner
Wrote an editorial about the famed Asilomar conference (celebrating its 50th anniversary) saying it "made it more difficult for scientists to take seriously global public concerns about emerging technologies, which has impeded governance and eroded trust in science." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Viewing Asilomar from the Global South
To many in the scientific community, the 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA stands as a singular achievement. This experiment in governance seemed to demonstrate that citizens could trust sci...
