“Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.”
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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
