How is the public systematically excluded from discussions about genetic engineering technologies? What strategies might scientists employ to include public opinions within their governance structu…| Free Rads
How does the legacy of the 1975 Asilomar conference inform recent and ongoing regulation of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technologies? How do these regulation structures reproduce social inequities? Fi…| Free Rads
So far, we’ve talked about how the 1975 Asilomar conference created a system in which scientists escaped government and public scrutiny. But whose perspectives and voices were sidelined in the proc…| Free Rads
In democratic societies like the U.S., we entrust relevant experts with the task of making hard choices that impact broader society. There is a tacit agreement between technical experts and everybo…| Free Rads