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The programme consists of filmed interviews with a number of academic scientists talking about their attitude to the involvement of science in the wider social political context. There are those wh...o feel that, since the products of science are used for industrial and political purposes, scientists have a responsibility to be aware of these and if necessary to actively promote or oppose these uses. Other people argue that science is objective and that if scientists adopt a political role they will suffer as scientists. Others argue that it is applied science (i.e. technology and medicine) which has these problems and that pure science is the pursuit of objective truth and is above such considerations. The programme is prefaced and summed up by the Dean of Science, Professor Michael Pentz. Other people argue that science is objective and that if scientists adopt a political role they will suffer as scientists. Others argue that it is applied science (i.e. technology and medicine) which has these problems and that pure science is the pursuit of objective truth and is above such considerations. The programme is prefaced and summed up by the Dean of Science, Professor Michael Pentz.
The programme consists of filmed interviews with a number of academic scientists talking about their attitude to the involvement of science in the wider social political context. There are those wh...o feel that, since the products of science are used for industrial and political purposes, scientists have a responsibility to be aware of these and if necessary to actively promote or oppose these uses. Other people argue that science is objective and that if scientists adopt a political role they will suffer as scientists. Others argue that it is applied science (i.e. technology and medicine) which has these problems and that pure science is the pursuit of objective truth and is above such considerations. The programme is prefaced and summed up by the Dean of Science, Professor Michael Pentz. Other people argue that science is objective and that if scientists adopt a political role they will suffer as scientists. Others argue that it is applied science (i.e. technology and medicine) which has these problems and that pure science is the pursuit of objective truth and is above such considerations. The programme is prefaced and summed up by the Dean of Science, Professor Michael Pentz.
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