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Sep 23, 2015 · Overall, the information shared by speakers concerning what is known about public trust in science suggested a complex landscape in which personal characteristics like culture, religion, values, and personal histories—when combined with science's own shortcomings like inconsistent findings and conflict of interest–can promote lack of trust in both scientists and the scientific enterprise.
- Division on Earth
- 2015/09/23
- 2015
Dec 28, 2022 · 1 The public trust building efforts include science education (especially K-12), ensuring research integrity and legal compliance by scientific institutions, as well as including the public in various areas of scientific governance (e.g. membership on research ethics boards), scientific practice (e.g. citizen science projects), and policy decision making (e.g. mini-publics/citizen juries).
Aug 29, 2010 · Public trust is a familiar buzzword in research ethics and policy. Numerous codes of professional conduct, reports from government agencies and scientific organizations, scholarly articles, editorials, monographs, and textbooks cite the need to promote public trust in science as a reason for developing or revising ethical standards, ensuring compliance with the law, overseeing research ...
- David B. Resnik
- resnikd@niehs.nih.gov
- 2011
Jul 11, 2022 · Given the pre-occupation with public trust by government actors and scientific institutions, there are many topics that have been the focus of research on trust. Notable among these are controversial issues such as GM foods (Augoustinos, Crabb, and Shepherd Citation 2009 ), nuclear energy (Bratt Citation 2015 ), the BSE crisis in the UK (Jones Citation 2004 ), and human genetics (Jones and ...
Abstract. This essay analyzes the concept of public trust in science and offers some guidance for ethicists, scientists, and policymakers who use this idea defend ethical rules or policies pertaining to the conduct of research. While the notion that public trusts science makes sense in the abstract, it may not be sufficiently focused to support ...
- David B. Resnik
- 2011
To enjoy the public's trust, the research community must first be clear about what it is expected to do and then avoid the incidents that prevent it from meeting those expectations. Among other things, there are expectations that published scientific results will be reliable, that research has the potential to contribute to the common good, and ...
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Sep 1, 2011 · Here are some essential elements of the concept of public trust: 1. Positive Belief: Public trust is a positive belief that the trusted entity will act in the best interest of the public or ...
