Re: Are There Any Actual Physicists/Scientists Here?

the softrat wrote:

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:21:35 -0400, Andy Resnick
<andy.resnick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok, I'll take your bait. My position is that all knowledge should be freely available to all, period. No exceptions. I am concerned that knowledge is gained in an ethical manner (this is more applicable to biological research, expecially human research), but I have nothing to say on the ethics of *applications* of the research. Ethics evolves, what we consider ethical now is different an was what considerd ethical in the past, and is surely different from what will be considered ethical.


Even the ancients addressed this issue, "A Workman is Worthy of His
Hire." Unless you plan to put all researchers on the dole. Then we
would get more 'research' than we could afford.

If *I* do revenue producing research, I expect to be paid for it!

Of course. That's not the issue. The issue is that if my salary is paid by tax dollars, I have an obligation to make my results public. Should I be compelled to? That's different- and I am concerned about NIH contemplating the release of everyone's raw data directly onto the Internet. Imagine the havoc that is going to cause w.r.t. drug trials.

If my salary is paid by a private company, using private funds, there is no obligation to release data- patent law is an attempt to address this, but it is seen in optics and computer science (the most obvious examples to me) that the process is inherently flawed.


--
Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University
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