Word: oversight
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...research community used to what has essentialy been a laissez-faire system of self-regulation, the new oversight is inherently unsettling. Many however, see in its excess something even more harmful: an attack on the value of openness intrinsic to scientific work and the intellectual culture that sustains...
...says his interaction with the academic community has ensured that the Bush administration is mindful of tensions and obstacles that governmental oversight might create for research institutions accustomed to being beholden only to their own research concerns...
...called Fink Report upheld the need for research oversight with an eye to national security. But it proposed establishing a committee of experts to ensure that researchers’ projects are reviewed by peer scientists—rather than lay lawmakers—before being impeded or allowed to progress...
Last month, the government implemented this recommendation by establishing the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, a panel of 25 experts that will provide oversight for institutional projects under governmental aegis...
...unnecessary because social and professional constraints built into the research process—pieces of what he calls “a social compact for designing knowledge and receiving knowledge”—are already more effective in preventing subversive use of information than any federal oversight could hope...