Scientists Should Oppose the Drive of Postmodern Ideology

Marcel Kuntz (1)

1 LPCV - Physiologie cellulaire et végétale

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: Biotechnology; Genetically modified organism; GMO; Gene editing; CRISPR; Science; Scientific institution; Postmodernism; Public engagement; Ethics; Sociology

Domains: Biotechnology; Ethics

Marcel Kuntz. Scientists Should Oppose the Drive of Postmodern Ideology. Trends in Biotechnology, 2016, 34 (12), pp.943 - 945. ⟨10.1016/j.tibtech.2016.08.008⟩. ⟨hal-01414643⟩