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Need to distinguish science (good or bad) from ethics

David Campbell1

  1. Department of Biological Sciences, 425 Scientific Collections Building, University of Alabama, Box 870345, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0345, USA

Although I share John Horgan's concern about the misrepresentation of science by the current US administration and others, expressed in his Book Review of Seth Shulman's Undermining Science ("Dark days at the White House" Nature 445, 365–366; 2007), he and other commentators need to distinguish clearly between science and ethics in their arguments. It is bad science to claim that reducing environmental protection will not have adverse effects on rare species, for example, but the decision whether we should protect rare species or not is an ethical one.

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