h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A Journal about writing The Prize:
Introduction, A87776059
The Prize, Section 1 – A Sort of Sordid History, A87776789
The Prize, Section 2 – A Not So Sordid History, A87776798
The Pit and the Pendulum, A87777698

Although Ethical Science is real, practical, active, and fundamental to science as practiced today; there is also inherent conflict between Ethics and Science.

Scientific knowledge is based on empirical evidence and the dialectic method, but experimental evidence and logical debate have great trouble understanding notions of right or wrong. Such notions are carried by culture. There are many common threads among the ethics of many different cultures. It is all too easy to assume your culture has a priority in the arena of ethics. More common is a complacent unawareness of the cultural origins of the ethics practiced day to day in science.

In stark contrast with the unawareness of the basis of ethics, is the almost religious zeal with which we practice ethics in science. It is this disassociation within our belief systems that deserve inspection as we survey the ethical problems that we see in science today.

[Amy P]