There is a great precedent for engaged scientists participating in a social problem.
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.
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.
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.
Now that this berms have been given permits, the Louisiana governor's office and the Corps of Engineers should, at the very least, engage scientists and engineers to monitor the first berm to see how it performs and examine any unintended impacts.
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.
Our initial studies of the nQuire-it platform have raised issues of how to enable people to frame valid inquiries, how to engage scientists in these endeavours, and how to sustain an active community of citizen inquiry.
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.
