Article ID: CBB230115895

The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism (April 2022)

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This study takes off from the ethical problem that racism grounded in population genetics raises. It is an analysis of four standard scientific responses to the problem of genetically motivated racism, seen in connection with the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP): (1) Discriminatory uses of scientific facts and arguments are in principle ‘misuses’ of scientific data that the researcher cannot be further responsible for. (2) In a strict scientific sense, genomic facts ‘disclaim racism’, which means that an epistemically correct grasp of genomics should be ethically justified. (3) Ethical difficulties are issues to be ‘resolved’ by an ethics institution or committee, which will guarantee the ethical quality of the research scrutinized. (4) Although population genetics occasionally may lead to racism, its overall ‘value’ for humankind justifies its cause as a desirable pursuit. I argue that these typical responses to genetically motivated racism supervene on a principle called the ‘ethic of knowledge’, which implies that an epistemically correct account has intrinsic ethical value. This principle, and its logically related ideas concerning the ethic of science, effectively avoids a deeper ethical question of responsibility in science from being raised.

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Authors & Contributors
Benjamin, Ruha
Fantini, Bernardino
Fujigaki, Yuko
Hurlbut, James Benjamin
Nukaga, Yoshio
Ruphy, Stéphanie
Journals
Science, Technology, and Human Values
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Current Anthropology
History of the Human Sciences
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
Springer
Columbia University Press
Donzelli
Franco Angeli
MIT Press
Le Lettere Edizioni
Concepts
Biology and ethics; bioethics
Ethics
Responsible research and innovation
Genetics
Science and ethics
Medicine
People
Beauchamp, Tom L.
Childress, James F.
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Italy
Netherlands
Yunnan Province (China)
Singapore
South Korea
Institutions
European Commission
International Bioethics Committee (UNESCO)
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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