Science and Ethics

This morning I was cajoled into editing a piece by my son on ethics in science. The piece argues that ethics is not simply a side concern of science, but that ethics is the beating heart of the discipline.

My view is that at every stage of scientific development, the genuine scientist holds and maintains high rational values as standards. These rational values are the underlying ethics of science. They establish what a scientist should do. And to a large extent, this is what most actually do do.

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Coco, the dog, recently jumped up and down and asked me to help edit her blog: The Wisdom of Coco.

This blog contains the philosophical musings of a canine.

To help in this task, I upgraded my old blogspot blog to the new Google Account style blog and gave this blog a new look.

You can read the philosophical musings of a human on the site plusroot.com.

Plusroot Blog

The Plusroot Blog will follow the developing of The Roots of Sound Rational Thinking, a work on the foundations of peaceful progress through reason. As with most blogs, the first posts will be about trying to figure out how to use the blogging software. Thank you for your patience in this initial effort.