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Abstract
The National Academies of Sciences of the USA recently published a report entitled Gene Drive on the Horizon. This commentary discusses the 'Aligning Research with Public Values' aspects in this report, the topic of public engagement, and the worrying ideological shift towards postmodernism which aims to deconstruct Enlightenment values.Keywords: engaging the public; genome editing; relativism; risk; science and democracy; understanding science
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27637727 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2016.08.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Biotechnol ISSN: 0167-7799 Impact factor: 19.536