Scientific Autonomy Quotes
She was referring to scientists who might have personal moral judgments regarding a scientific issue like embryos, stem cells, and abortion or animal experiments that are different from that of the government at the time, might have their job threatened if they refused to personally perform a procedure that was offensive to them.
On a much smaller and less damaging scale, there were some government American officials tried to intimidate, censor and if thosoe failed, ruin and discredit scientiosts who did not agree with their view of the dangers of nuclear weapons and the various policy options. Although they drove Oppenheimer and some other scientists out of government and to this day have produced scientists who will not work on government research, the laws, Constitution and checks and galances and cmittment to the Constitution be most Americcans limited the damage somewhat and unlike Russia who assassianted scientists who did not follow the Party line, the few American officials just asassinated their character and patriotism.
Coburn advocated Congress appropriating money for research and then staying out of the details of how the research is conducted and which scientific or medical problems are researched.
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