Evans, N;
Selgelid, M;
Simpson, RM;
(2022)
Reconciling Regulation with Scientific Autonomy in Dual-use Research.
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
, 47
(1)
pp. 72-94.
10.1093/jmp/jhab041.
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Abstract
In debates over the regulation of communication related to dual-use research, the risks that such communication creates must be weighed against against the value of scientific autonomy. The censorship of such communication seems justifiable in certain cases, given the potentially catastrophic applications of some dual-use research. This conclusion however, gives rise to another kind of danger: that regulators will use overly simplistic cost-benefit analysis to rationalize excessive regulation of scientific research. In response to this, we show how institutional design principles and normative frameworks from free speech theory can be used to help extend the argument for regulating dangerous dual-use research beyond overly simplistic cost-benefit reasoning, but without reverting to an implausibly absolutist view of scientific autonomy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reconciling Regulation with Scientific Autonomy in Dual-use Research |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jmp/jhab041 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhab041 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | dual-use research, free speech, public health, scientific autonomy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10058541 |
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