ConScience: the word offers repugnant clarity. So much is what is deemed to be scientific is con-science. Science has a long tradition of being available to the highest bidder (especially for the Military Industrial Complex). Can we define the nature of conscience; and what role it has for science?
Evidently we can. However, we can never relate conscience to science. Science is a group, a collective, and such has no soul’. “Conscience” applies only to ‘those with soul’: the individual scientists.
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