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Do you not think Science needs oversight and agreement from society on what is acceptable or not?

Don't get me wrong this agreement from society is not always balanced, correct and often Science has to disagree and argue the point, but this oversight must still exist, surely?

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I don't understand what you mean by "Science".

There's a formal methodology, a social practice, a set of results, a perceived canon...

Is it the problem of lawbreaking experiment side effects you're interested in? E.g. infecting a bunch of people with syphilis to see disease progression?

The original thread is regarding medical science.

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