Today I'm ranting about scientific responsibility on Tribe.

So a scientist can have a social conscience. A scientist *should* have a social conscience, to the same extent you, I and the milkman have a social conscience. But I think if you try to argue she should have *more* responsibility than other people, this can *only* be exercised by either self-censorship, or by society granting an unwarranted authority to the scientist's moral and political opinions.

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