Scientists who work in biomedieal fields cannot be objective observers oi processes that go on in their own bodies. What is the rational solution to this dilemma? So long as individual scientists believe, and behave according to the belief, that the essence of success in science is the freedom to discover the right experiment and then to do it according to one's own lights, all the social structures that connect scientists to one another will be based solely on each scientist's latest piece of individual work: a hob-besian world of each against all. Such a world is intrinsically unhappy, and profoundly unbiological as well, in the sense that no scientist's life, or work, can possibly go on indefinitely, as this sort of world demands.
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