There is a great precedent for engaged scientists participating in a social problem.
What purpose, divine or adaptive, this substance might serve was once the subject of a learned debate that engaged scientists, government officials, psychiatrists, intellectuals, and a few gold-plated egomaniacs.
The ensuing approaches were based on input from ethical experts from the fields of applied ethics and bioethics as well as socially engaged scientists with a specific experience and interest in ethical issues related to science and technology.
Truly, interdisciplinary interactions among engaged scientists who tackled a shared problem are a remarkable glue for holding research projects together, and they proved that creativity can prosper in "bottom-up" research programs.
They engaged scientists, mathematicians, anthropologist, and criminologist, to invent a system based on reality, statistics, probability and likeliness.
Bernard Pullman, The Atom in the History of Human Thought; a Panoramic Intellectual History of a Quest That Has Engaged Scientists and Philosophers for 2,500 Years, (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 346-47.
It has engaged scientists in research to better understand storm systems called atmospheric rivers, which in the rainy seasons will allow dam operators to make more nuanced decisions about when to release water for flood control purposes and when to hold it.
This participatory activity engaged scientists, staff, and community advocates with first-hand experience of the initiative, in co-constructing the framework for an evaluation system.
A balanced program to secure weapons material and technology must include a modest effort to engage scientists with dangerous expertise.
Spencer Cox joined a small committee to take on the science, hoping that by arming themselves with its language, they could engage scientists in meaningful dialogue.
When Web users can review research in progress and engage scientists in open discussions, the traditional process of peer review based on the model of academic publishing will face some new challenges.
