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%SCIENTISTS' VALUES 780410
The modern era is dominated by the implications of
scientists' activities. Their activities generate
engineering, philosophical, religious, and social
consequences. It is not enough to trace such consequences
back to the pure research which apparently occasioned
them. It is also necessary to examine the system of
ideals and values held in common by the community of
scientists. The modern era is dominated by which ideals
and values are affirmed by scientists and which ideals and
values are sacrificed by scientists. It is important to
recognize that ideals and values are embodied in
individual human beings who make decisions which greatly
affect the allocation of our scarce resources. The
allocation of resources is a political process; scientists
are therefore engaged in a political process by virtue of
the consequences of their decisions.
Political processes are an expression of the values
embodied in the persons who dominate the political
processes. The obvious participants in the political
processes are not necessarily the persons who dominate the
political processes. The obvious participants may be
merely working out the logical implications of the value
embodied in behind-the-scene leaders. In practice the
dominant leaders may not even know that it is their ideals
and values which are dominating the whole political
process. Modern scientists do not perceive themselves to
be the dominant political leaders---they are usually
frustrated by the fact that the obvious political leaders
will not accept scientists' overt political advice. Even
so, the system of ideals and values of the scientists can,
through indirect avenues, exert the dominant influences
upon the political process. It is important to recognize
those indirect avenues by which scientists' ideals and
values permeate our modern societies and their political
processes.
It is not "science" which dominates modern society.
It is scientists as persons who embody specific values
who dominate our society. We will be the victims of
mythical "science" until we understand scientists as
persons and the process by which they come to embody the
conventional values of scientists.
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