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These events show that being a scientist is no longer just a matter of doing research. Increasingly, scientists are being called upon to defend their work from creeping government regulation. And a new group being formed at the Institute of Politics (IOP) may help Harvard students of science prepare for this new, more political research scene...
...outside of moral considerations, just refuse to enter the debate. But an unholy alliance of national security mavens and self-appointed academic ethicists are now threatening to hijack decision-making over the bounds of scientific research. As a result, scientists will more and more be pressed into service to defend their work from creeping government regulation. Harvard students of science need to be well-equipped to repulse encroachment when it comes...
...dangers posed by terrorists may have increased dramatically, and conventional military strategy (including nonconventional weapons) may no longer defend a country against non--state-based forms of aggression. But to start a new war against Iraq is more like business as usual and not proof of a new way of thinking. At best, attacking Iraq may be explained as turning the rifle from a moving target--Osama bin Laden--and aiming at a more or less stationary Saddam. What the world truly needs is a strategy that fights hatred and nations' inferiority complexes through confidence-building measures in the fields...
America needs to control the rich, oil-producing regions in the Middle East. And given the state of most European armies, the U.S. also needs to defend the interests of its allies and friends. Let us hope that a successful pre-emptive strike on Iraq will leave in its wake the preventive medicine of fighting corruption in the Middle East and will reduce radicalism there. Stefan Collinet-Adler Nancy, France...
...fact that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz publicly challenged him to a debate, a challenge that he refused. Is Hanson serious? If anyone “closed the door to free and open debate,” it was Hanson himself, upon shamelessly refusing to defend his positions in public in a “free and open debate.” If one has the gall to sign a morally controversial petition sure to offend a significant segment of the University community, public explanation and debate are called for. Attempting to shift the blame onto those that...