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EPISODE · May 13, 2007 · 49 MIN

Science, Ethics, and Censorship

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Science is, on the one hand, a huge enterprise funded to a great extent by the government and by industry.  On the other hand, science is supposed to be the dispassionate, objective search for truth.  What happens when the search for truth conflicts with the needs and desires of the funders?  Should those funders be allowed to censor the science they pay for?  Should scientists be free to publish the truth whatever its effect?  John and Ken welcome Ronald Atlas, Past President of the American Society for Microbiology and Graduate Dean at the University of Louisville.

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