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The Working group on Ethics in science aims at promoting integrity, responsability and solidarity within the scientific community, including its relationship with the society at large.
Aims at developing a common perception and support of the cultural, ethical and legal value of science and research within Europe.
Aims at developing a common perception and support of the cultural, ethical and legal value of science and research within Europe.
After the First World Conference on Research Integrity :
Fostering Responsible Research
Lisbon, 16-19 September 2007
The final report of the Conference co-chairs Anthony Mayer, European Science Foundation (ESF) and Nicholas Steneck, US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) is now on the conference site : www.esf.org/conferences/integrity/
All presentations are accessible there, including the « Action oriented Summary » by Peter Tindemans, the conference rapporteur.
He emphasizes four themes within the broad notion of research integrity :
i) research misconduct proper focusing on plagiarism, fraud and fabrication and the broader view including questionable research practices ;
ii) bioethics refering to all infringements on national or international regulations ;
iii) conflicting interests when external pressures (at the interface of research and political,economic or military interests) on researchers and/or scientific institutions leads to misrepresenting or hiding research results ;
iv) institutional integrity when trust, credibility and responsibility are perceived as crucial values from government to individual faculty members, students and the society.
In each theme several areas for actions are defined by the rapporteur and Euroscience members are encouraged to think at them and react. Several actions pertain to the responsibility of authors and scientific journals in publications. A pertinent analysis of the scientists' communication is given by Marie-Claude Roland in her report to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO Reports, vol. 18, May 2007) : « Publish AND Perish : hedging as fraud in scientific discourse », see www.reflexives-lpr.org
The Tindemans' report concludes on two cross-cutting issues :
i) ways to help promoting research integrity by scientists and institutions in the developing countries ;
ii) links between science culture in society at large and trust in science.
A good example of a national ethics committee catching up in Nigeria was given in her invited talk by Ayse Erzan , see http://www.nhrec.net/nhrec/
« The National Health Research Ethics Committee, Nigeria (NHREC) has United States Federal Wide Assurance so that when the NHREC functions as an ethics committee according to the National Code and reviews protocols, such protocol review meets the requirements of United States Federal Government funded research. »
Also Nigerian citizen's initiatives are being set up : Nigeria Heath Watch, see http://nigeriahealthwatch.blogspot.com/
The ESOF2008 meeting will be an opportunity to discuss these issues and suggest new actions for education at elementary and high school level and development of a strong science culture.
Lydie Koch Miramond
convenor Working group Ethics in Science
Euroscience
lkoch@cea.fr
Fostering Responsible Research
Lisbon, 16-19 September 2007
The final report of the Conference co-chairs Anthony Mayer, European Science Foundation (ESF) and Nicholas Steneck, US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) is now on the conference site : www.esf.org/conferences/integrity/
All presentations are accessible there, including the « Action oriented Summary » by Peter Tindemans, the conference rapporteur.
He emphasizes four themes within the broad notion of research integrity :
i) research misconduct proper focusing on plagiarism, fraud and fabrication and the broader view including questionable research practices ;
ii) bioethics refering to all infringements on national or international regulations ;
iii) conflicting interests when external pressures (at the interface of research and political,economic or military interests) on researchers and/or scientific institutions leads to misrepresenting or hiding research results ;
iv) institutional integrity when trust, credibility and responsibility are perceived as crucial values from government to individual faculty members, students and the society.
In each theme several areas for actions are defined by the rapporteur and Euroscience members are encouraged to think at them and react. Several actions pertain to the responsibility of authors and scientific journals in publications. A pertinent analysis of the scientists' communication is given by Marie-Claude Roland in her report to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO Reports, vol. 18, May 2007) : « Publish AND Perish : hedging as fraud in scientific discourse », see www.reflexives-lpr.org
The Tindemans' report concludes on two cross-cutting issues :
i) ways to help promoting research integrity by scientists and institutions in the developing countries ;
ii) links between science culture in society at large and trust in science.
A good example of a national ethics committee catching up in Nigeria was given in her invited talk by Ayse Erzan , see http://www.nhrec.net/nhrec/
« The National Health Research Ethics Committee, Nigeria (NHREC) has United States Federal Wide Assurance so that when the NHREC functions as an ethics committee according to the National Code and reviews protocols, such protocol review meets the requirements of United States Federal Government funded research. »
Also Nigerian citizen's initiatives are being set up : Nigeria Heath Watch, see http://nigeriahealthwatch.blogspot.com/
The ESOF2008 meeting will be an opportunity to discuss these issues and suggest new actions for education at elementary and high school level and development of a strong science culture.
Lydie Koch Miramond
convenor Working group Ethics in Science
Euroscience
lkoch@cea.fr
Addressing the urgent need for fighting fraud, forgery and plagiarism in science world-wide, the very first World Conference on Research Integrity is set to facilitate an unprecedented global effort to foster responsible research in Lisbon, Portugal from 16 to 19 September 2007.
The controversies surrounding the recent assessment report of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change demonstrates how research integrity is a critical issue not only for the science community, but for politicians and the society as a whole as well. In August 2007 the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had to withdraw previous published historical climate data. The incident came after a British mathematician discovered that the sources used by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) have disregarded the positions of weather stations, plus intentionally using outdated data on China from 1991 and ignoring revised data on the country from 1997.
Now 350 concerned scientists, scientific managers and magazine editors from around the world are scheduled to attend the event in Lisbon, initiated and organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the US Office for Research Integrity (ORI). It marks a milestone for the science community as it will link all those concerned parties in a global effort to tackle the issue head on.
”At the very least, countries should know how misconduct will be handled in other countries and whom to contact if they have questions. A more ambitious goal is to begin to harmonize global policies relating to research integrity,” says Conference Co-Chair Nicholas Steneck from the University of Michigan.
“By now there are no consistent global standards for defining and responding to major misconduct in research. Definitions and practices vary from country to country and even institution to institution. Improper practices that could be ignored in one country could get a researcher dismissed from a position in another country,” Steneck adds.
The conference will be focusing on both individual and institutions’ responsibilities, and of funding agencies as well as publishers, according to Conference Co-Chair Tony Mayer from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Mayer is also the former Senior Science Policy Adviser to the ESF.
Jose-Mariano Gago, the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Janez Potocnik, the European Commissioner for Research, Angel Gurri?a, the Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and Tim Hunt from the Cancer Research UK, South Mimms will kick off the event by participating in the opening talks. .
In his keynote address, Paul David form the Oxford University, UK, and StanfordUniversity, Palo Alto, U.S., will give an overview on analytical and empirical studies of ORI on the problem of scientific misconduct. David is well known for his research in the economics of science and technology, with special reference to the impact of intellectual property rights protections on the direction and conduct of ‘open science’ research.
Howard Alper, Professor of Chemistry and Vice-President Research at the University of Ottawa, and winner of the first Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal in Science and Engineering, Canada’s most prestigious award for science and engineering, is also affiliated with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, because he is also an expert in the situations in developing and emerging countries. From his experiences he presents the best practices for the benefit of a society.
Herbert Gottweis from the Institute of Political Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria, will reconsider the Hwang gate from 2005 and present the lessons learned. Gottweis is vice-president of the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) and coordinator of the PAGANINI (“Participatory Governance and Institutional Innovation“) project of the European Union.
The conference will also touch on the situation in developing and emerging countries, where scientists often have to produce publications in numbers under pressure to achieve the formal scientific qualifications. Thus voices from Africa, like that from Amaboo Dhai, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, Parktown, South Africa, will also be heard. In addition, Annette Flanagin of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Muza Gondwe, University of Malawi, College of Medicine, Blantyre, will contribute their experiences from the „African Journal Partnership Project“. Flanagin is the author of the JAMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors, now in its 10th edition.
In other words the World Conference on Research Integrity focuses on an open sore of science, taking into consideration the reality, legal and institutional aspects, as well as regional, social and psychological environments in which scientists work.It intends to be the beginning of the healing process.
The controversies surrounding the recent assessment report of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change demonstrates how research integrity is a critical issue not only for the science community, but for politicians and the society as a whole as well. In August 2007 the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had to withdraw previous published historical climate data. The incident came after a British mathematician discovered that the sources used by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) have disregarded the positions of weather stations, plus intentionally using outdated data on China from 1991 and ignoring revised data on the country from 1997.
Now 350 concerned scientists, scientific managers and magazine editors from around the world are scheduled to attend the event in Lisbon, initiated and organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the US Office for Research Integrity (ORI). It marks a milestone for the science community as it will link all those concerned parties in a global effort to tackle the issue head on.
”At the very least, countries should know how misconduct will be handled in other countries and whom to contact if they have questions. A more ambitious goal is to begin to harmonize global policies relating to research integrity,” says Conference Co-Chair Nicholas Steneck from the University of Michigan.
“By now there are no consistent global standards for defining and responding to major misconduct in research. Definitions and practices vary from country to country and even institution to institution. Improper practices that could be ignored in one country could get a researcher dismissed from a position in another country,” Steneck adds.
The conference will be focusing on both individual and institutions’ responsibilities, and of funding agencies as well as publishers, according to Conference Co-Chair Tony Mayer from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Mayer is also the former Senior Science Policy Adviser to the ESF.
Jose-Mariano Gago, the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Janez Potocnik, the European Commissioner for Research, Angel Gurri?a, the Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and Tim Hunt from the Cancer Research UK, South Mimms will kick off the event by participating in the opening talks. .
In his keynote address, Paul David form the Oxford University, UK, and StanfordUniversity, Palo Alto, U.S., will give an overview on analytical and empirical studies of ORI on the problem of scientific misconduct. David is well known for his research in the economics of science and technology, with special reference to the impact of intellectual property rights protections on the direction and conduct of ‘open science’ research.
Howard Alper, Professor of Chemistry and Vice-President Research at the University of Ottawa, and winner of the first Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal in Science and Engineering, Canada’s most prestigious award for science and engineering, is also affiliated with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, because he is also an expert in the situations in developing and emerging countries. From his experiences he presents the best practices for the benefit of a society.
Herbert Gottweis from the Institute of Political Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria, will reconsider the Hwang gate from 2005 and present the lessons learned. Gottweis is vice-president of the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) and coordinator of the PAGANINI (“Participatory Governance and Institutional Innovation“) project of the European Union.
The conference will also touch on the situation in developing and emerging countries, where scientists often have to produce publications in numbers under pressure to achieve the formal scientific qualifications. Thus voices from Africa, like that from Amaboo Dhai, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, Parktown, South Africa, will also be heard. In addition, Annette Flanagin of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Muza Gondwe, University of Malawi, College of Medicine, Blantyre, will contribute their experiences from the „African Journal Partnership Project“. Flanagin is the author of the JAMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors, now in its 10th edition.
In other words the World Conference on Research Integrity focuses on an open sore of science, taking into consideration the reality, legal and institutional aspects, as well as regional, social and psychological environments in which scientists work.It intends to be the beginning of the healing process.
Information from Lydie Koch Miramond, convenor of the "Ethics in Science" Working Group :
The threat of nuclear annihilation, by accident or design, remains the greatest threat to civilization confronting Europe and the World. The 480 US nuclear weapons based in Europe contribute to this threat. We call upon European and World leaders to take action in confronting and ending this threat. For the safety and security of the peoples of the World, we appeal: To the leaders of non-nuclear European governments, to move toward the elimination of the threat of nuclear weapons in Europe and the World by calling upon the United States to remove all its nuclear weapons from European soil and the adjoining waters and to have these weapons returned to the US for dismantlement; To the leaders of NATO countries, including the three NATO nuclear weapons states, the US, UK and France, to abandon the NATO policy of first use of nuclear weapons and to replace it with a clear and legally binding No First Use policy; To the leaders of all nuclear weapons states, declared and de facto, to initiate negotiations on the universal elimination of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
If you would like to see background documents and/or would like to sign the petition, see the www.pugwash.eu website.
John Avery,
The Danish Pugwash Group
www.pugwash.dk
The threat of nuclear annihilation, by accident or design, remains the greatest threat to civilization confronting Europe and the World. The 480 US nuclear weapons based in Europe contribute to this threat. We call upon European and World leaders to take action in confronting and ending this threat. For the safety and security of the peoples of the World, we appeal: To the leaders of non-nuclear European governments, to move toward the elimination of the threat of nuclear weapons in Europe and the World by calling upon the United States to remove all its nuclear weapons from European soil and the adjoining waters and to have these weapons returned to the US for dismantlement; To the leaders of NATO countries, including the three NATO nuclear weapons states, the US, UK and France, to abandon the NATO policy of first use of nuclear weapons and to replace it with a clear and legally binding No First Use policy; To the leaders of all nuclear weapons states, declared and de facto, to initiate negotiations on the universal elimination of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
If you would like to see background documents and/or would like to sign the petition, see the www.pugwash.eu website.
John Avery,
The Danish Pugwash Group
www.pugwash.dk
Scientific research and the defense of human rights share common values (aspiration to universality, regard for precision and transparency, critical spirit) and they are enterprises called to join forces and throw light on each other, for better against worst.
Urgent call for support of Dr Igor Sutyagin (Russia)
Pressure for the liberation of Dr Igor Sutyagin urgently needed!
Euroscience through its workgroup "Ethics in Science" is involved in the defense of the Russian scientist Dr Igor Sutyagin, a researcher at the U.S. and Canada Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sentenced to 15 years of hard labour on August 17, 2004, for high treason in a closed trial, far from international fair trial standards, raising serious concerns that the case has been brought for political reasons. For further information, see the Joint statement by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Helsinki Federation of Human Rights, the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Public Committee for the protection of Scientists, on:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/print/ENGEUR460262004.
He was transfered to the "High Security Colony" M-222 (Komi) on September 1st, 2004, see: http://sutyagin.org/eng/
Euroscience through its workgroup "Ethics in Science" is involved in the defense of the Russian scientist Dr Igor Sutyagin, a researcher at the U.S. and Canada Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sentenced to 15 years of hard labour on August 17, 2004, for high treason in a closed trial, far from international fair trial standards, raising serious concerns that the case has been brought for political reasons. For further information, see the Joint statement by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Helsinki Federation of Human Rights, the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Public Committee for the protection of Scientists, on:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/print/ENGEUR460262004.
He was transfered to the "High Security Colony" M-222 (Komi) on September 1st, 2004, see: http://sutyagin.org/eng/
Continuing support for Pr Yuri Bandajevsky (Belarus)
Euroscience through its workgroup "Ethics in Science" is involved in the defense of the Belarusian scientist Pr Yuri Bandazhevsky.
Pr Yuri Bandazhevsky, former director of the Medical Institute in Gomel, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in June 2001; his conviction is related to his scientific work on children diseases consecutive to the Tchernobyl disaster and his open criticism of the state authorities's policy.
He was sent to relegation on May 29, 2004.
ES President letter to the Council of Europe (pdf - 117.2KB) expressing the unanimous support from Euroscience General Assembly to Prof. Bandajevsky.
Pr Yuri Bandazhevsky, former director of the Medical Institute in Gomel, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in June 2001; his conviction is related to his scientific work on children diseases consecutive to the Tchernobyl disaster and his open criticism of the state authorities's policy.
He was sent to relegation on May 29, 2004.
ES President letter to the Council of Europe (pdf - 117.2KB) expressing the unanimous support from Euroscience General Assembly to Prof. Bandajevsky.
Libération du scientifique biélorusse Bandajevsky
LYON, 6 août 2005 (AFP) - La scientifique biélorusse Youri Bandajevsky, spécialiste de médecine nucléaire condamné en 2001 à huit ans de réclusion au Bélarus pour avoir notamment critiqué la gestion de l'après Tchernobyl, a été libéré vendredi soir, a annoncé samedi à l'AFP la Commission de Recherche et d'Information Indépendantes sur la Radioactivité (Criirad).
"Le professeur Bandajevsky a été libéré hier (vendredi) soir, il est chez lui à Minsk. Pour le moment il est en liberté conditionnelle, et il ne peut pas voyager, mais je l'ai eu au téléphone et il va bien", a déclaré Romain Chazel, vice-président de la CRIIRAD.
Ancien recteur de l'institut de médecine de Gomel, Iouri Bandajevsky était considéré par Amnesty International comme un prisonnier d'opinion. Il a été arrêté fin 1999 et condamné en juin 2001 pour "corruption" à huit ans de détention dans un camp.
Il a notamment accusé le pouvoir de son pays d'irresponsabilité dans la gestion des retombées de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl sur la santé des populations et d'en cacher la véritable ampleur.
La Criirad souhaite maintenant que le professeur Bandajevsky "retrouve les moyens de poursuivre ses recherches", et invite ceux qui le souhaitent à participer à la mise en place d'un laboratoire de recherche biomédicale à Minsk, à travers le site web :
www.criirad.org
Début avril, l'épouse du Pr Bandajevsky, Galina Bandajevskaïa, était venue en France, à Lyon, annoncer la création prochaine de ce laboratoire privé, en marge d'un colloque international sur la prévention des risques nucléaires.
La Criirad est un laboratoire privé créé après l'accident de la centrale ukrainienne de Tchernobyl du 23 avril 1986.
"Le professeur Bandajevsky a été libéré hier (vendredi) soir, il est chez lui à Minsk. Pour le moment il est en liberté conditionnelle, et il ne peut pas voyager, mais je l'ai eu au téléphone et il va bien", a déclaré Romain Chazel, vice-président de la CRIIRAD.
Ancien recteur de l'institut de médecine de Gomel, Iouri Bandajevsky était considéré par Amnesty International comme un prisonnier d'opinion. Il a été arrêté fin 1999 et condamné en juin 2001 pour "corruption" à huit ans de détention dans un camp.
Il a notamment accusé le pouvoir de son pays d'irresponsabilité dans la gestion des retombées de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl sur la santé des populations et d'en cacher la véritable ampleur.
La Criirad souhaite maintenant que le professeur Bandajevsky "retrouve les moyens de poursuivre ses recherches", et invite ceux qui le souhaitent à participer à la mise en place d'un laboratoire de recherche biomédicale à Minsk, à travers le site web :
www.criirad.org
Début avril, l'épouse du Pr Bandajevsky, Galina Bandajevskaïa, était venue en France, à Lyon, annoncer la création prochaine de ce laboratoire privé, en marge d'un colloque international sur la prévention des risques nucléaires.
La Criirad est un laboratoire privé créé après l'accident de la centrale ukrainienne de Tchernobyl du 23 avril 1986.
Youri Bandajevsky: Latest news
Professor Youri Bandajevsky is currently (July 2006) in Clermont-Ferrand (France), at the invitation of the University of Auvergne and various local institutions. He is in conditional freedom since August 2005, after four years of hard conditions in Belarus.
Let me recall that Bandajevsky, former Director of the Medicine Institute of Gomel (Belarus) and an anatomopathologist scientist, was sentenced in June 2001 to eight years of imprisonment by a military court, accused, without proof, of corruption. It was his scientific work which was intolerable to the Belarus government: Bandajevsky and his colleague physicist Nesterenko had studied the effects of radio Caesium on animals and humans, after the Tchernobyl catastrophe, and shown that various severe troubles develop when people - and specially children - eat contaminated food.
The sentence of Bandajevsky was shortened by two years. He was then (May 2004) in relegation 200 km from Minsk until conditional freedom was granted to him, after a vast international movement in his favour had grown (see the book by the journalist W. Tchertkoff who coordinated this campaign: Le Crime de Tchernobyl, ed. Actes Sud, 2006).
Euroscience participated in this movement by informing its members and readers of Euroscience News of the situation, by writing a formal letter from our President to Belarus President Lukatchenko, by subsequently denouncing, again in formal letters from our President, the attitude of the Government of Belarus to the Presidency of the Council of Europe, and by sending issues of Euroscience News regularly to the prisoner.
Being horrified that in our day and age a European scientist has been mistreated and suffered years of intense pressure and humiliations from his own government, we feel that Euroscience’s actions were modest but that we have nonetheless been effective in keeping a number of European scientists and authorities aware of Bandajevsky's scandalous situation.
F.P.
We received nevertheless in June 2006 the following beautiful letter (in French):
" Chère Madame Praderie,
Wladimir Tchertkoff m'a transmis votre lettre. Je désire vous remercier de tout cœur pour le soutien que vous m'avez donné pendant mon emprisonnement. Grace à vous, je recevais régulièrement les journaux Euroscience, qui me faisaient connaitre le monde de la science européenne. Les fils tissés par vous et par nombre de mes amis de différents pays me reliaient au monde extérieur. Ce lien n'a pas permis que je succombe comme homme et comme scientifique, il me donnait l'espoir d'un avenir meilleur. En informant la communauté scientifique sur moi, vous consolidiez mes liens avec la société.
Je n'ai pas péri et maintenant je peux vous exprimer directement mon immense reconnaissance pour tout ce que vous avez fait pour moi.
Je vous souhaite santé et bonheur.
Avec mon profond respect et mon immense gratitude,
Youri Bandajevsky"
Let me recall that Bandajevsky, former Director of the Medicine Institute of Gomel (Belarus) and an anatomopathologist scientist, was sentenced in June 2001 to eight years of imprisonment by a military court, accused, without proof, of corruption. It was his scientific work which was intolerable to the Belarus government: Bandajevsky and his colleague physicist Nesterenko had studied the effects of radio Caesium on animals and humans, after the Tchernobyl catastrophe, and shown that various severe troubles develop when people - and specially children - eat contaminated food.
The sentence of Bandajevsky was shortened by two years. He was then (May 2004) in relegation 200 km from Minsk until conditional freedom was granted to him, after a vast international movement in his favour had grown (see the book by the journalist W. Tchertkoff who coordinated this campaign: Le Crime de Tchernobyl, ed. Actes Sud, 2006).
Euroscience participated in this movement by informing its members and readers of Euroscience News of the situation, by writing a formal letter from our President to Belarus President Lukatchenko, by subsequently denouncing, again in formal letters from our President, the attitude of the Government of Belarus to the Presidency of the Council of Europe, and by sending issues of Euroscience News regularly to the prisoner.
Being horrified that in our day and age a European scientist has been mistreated and suffered years of intense pressure and humiliations from his own government, we feel that Euroscience’s actions were modest but that we have nonetheless been effective in keeping a number of European scientists and authorities aware of Bandajevsky's scandalous situation.
F.P.
We received nevertheless in June 2006 the following beautiful letter (in French):
" Chère Madame Praderie,
Wladimir Tchertkoff m'a transmis votre lettre. Je désire vous remercier de tout cœur pour le soutien que vous m'avez donné pendant mon emprisonnement. Grace à vous, je recevais régulièrement les journaux Euroscience, qui me faisaient connaitre le monde de la science européenne. Les fils tissés par vous et par nombre de mes amis de différents pays me reliaient au monde extérieur. Ce lien n'a pas permis que je succombe comme homme et comme scientifique, il me donnait l'espoir d'un avenir meilleur. En informant la communauté scientifique sur moi, vous consolidiez mes liens avec la société.
Je n'ai pas péri et maintenant je peux vous exprimer directement mon immense reconnaissance pour tout ce que vous avez fait pour moi.
Je vous souhaite santé et bonheur.
Avec mon profond respect et mon immense gratitude,
Youri Bandajevsky"
- International Conference: "International humanitarian law and impunity of powerful states - the case of the United-States" Paris 22-24 September 2005.
"Those who seek to bestow legitimacy must themselves embody it; and those who invoke international law must themselves submit to it" Kofi Annan - The international conference "Images of Science - New Interactions between Science and Society" was organised by the Rathenau Institute, the Social Sciences Council and the All European Academies of Science (ALLEA) in Amsterdam on 6 and 7 December 2004.
- The Truth Telling Project, aimed at the protection of Wistle Blowers, initiated by Daniel Ellsberg, the author of «Secrets: a Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon papers »
- The Royal Society Policy, issued on 19 April 2004: "The individual and collective roles scientists can play in strengthening international treaties" http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/document.asp?tip=0&id=1346
- Conference "Governance of the European Research Area: The Role of Civil Society" Brussels, 12-13 June, 2003, contact: philippe.galiay@cec.eu.int
- ESOF2006: one (or two) sessions on Ethics in science during ESOF2006 are being thought of; the interested members are kindly requested to contact: lkoch@cea.fr
- During ESOF2004, the first European Science Open Forum, we organised a session on "The social responsability of the scientific institutions". Three speakers, Margaret Somerville, Barbara Rhodes and Gerard Toulouse, addressed these and related questions: "Do scientists have a duty to alert to the possibly harmful consequences of their work? Do modern societies allow them to express their concerns? Can the social responsability of scientists be discharged collectively through scientific institutions? " . See the report [REPORT OF THE ESOF2004 session.doc] and ES News 29, Autumn 2004, p6.
- The International Workshop on "Ethics in the European space", co-organised with ALLEA (All European Academies) on April 4 - 8, 2003, held at the Fondation des Treilles (Tourtour, France) ; the five days were devoted to : i) general issues, including 'modern science and its relations with religion, law and politics' (2 days) ; ii) focus on a major theme in bioethics : ethical and legal aspects of stem cell research (2 days) ; iii) practical and comparative issues ; European space and best practices : what are the main urgencies and how they should be addressed (1 day).
- The book entitled "Les scientifiques et les droits de l'Homme", dir. L. Koch-Miramond & G. Toulouse, ed. Les Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2003 ; it contains three parts : i) education in ethics and human rights ; ii) scientists and the civil society ; iii) bioethics : legal and ethical aspects (orphan illnesses, genetic engineering, etc.). This book is a follow-up of the Symposium "Science et droits de l'Homme", organised by the WG at Unesco (8-9 May, 2001)
read the Symposium "Science et droits de l'Homme"report (pdf - 6.9KB)
- The International Workshop on "Ethics in the European space", co-organised with ALLEA (All European Academies) on April 4 - 8, 2003, held at the Fondation des Treilles (Tourtour, France) ; the five days were devoted to : i) general issues, including 'modern science and its relations with religion, law and politics' (2 days) ; ii) focus on a major theme in bioethics : ethical and legal aspects of stem cell research (2 days) ; iii) practical and comparative issues ; European space and best practices : what are the main urgencies and how they should be addressed (1 day).
- The book entitled "Les scientifiques et les droits de l'Homme", dir. L. Koch-Miramond & G. Toulouse, ed. Les Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2003 (in press); it contains three parts: I) education in ethics and human rights ; II) scientists and the civil society ; III) bioethics : legal and ethical aspects (orphan illnesses, genetic engineering, etc.). This book is a follow-up of the Symposium "Science et droits de l'Homme", organised by the WG at Unesco (8-9 May, 2001)
read the Symposium "Science et droits de l'Homme" report (pdf - 6.9KB)
- Report of the International Committee of Bioethics (IBC), Unesco, Working Group on Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Germ-line Intervention, 2002, Hans Galyaard [ This report, as well as the one on Solidarity and International Co-operation between Developed and Developing Countries concerning the Human Genome, and the draft reports on the Follow-up of the International Symposium on "Ethics, Intellectual Property and Genomics and Collection, Treatment, Storage and Use of Genetic Data are available on the IBC website :
www.unesco.org/ibc/en/actes/index.htm
- Pugwash Workshop on Science, Ethics and Society, 27-29 June 2003, Paris, France
see the Pugwash workshop report
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