Good Science, Good Sense and Good Sensibilities: The Three Ss of Carol Newton

Good Science, Good Sense and Good Sensibilities: The Three Ss of Carol Newton

The Three Rs principle of Replacement, Reduction and Refinement developed by William M. S. Russell and Rex L. Burch in the 1950s has achieved worldwide recognition as a means of reducing the impact of science on animals and improving their welfare. However, application of the Three Rs is still far from universal, and evidence-based methods to implement the Three Rs are still lacking in many are...

I-20: Good Science and Good Ethics@ WhyWe Should Discourage Payment for Eggs inStem Cell Research?

Background: To evaluate current scientific and legal trends in provision of human eggs for stem cell research and to propose a policy which is both ethically and scientifically sound Materials and Methods: Literature survey of European and US policies on payment for egg donation in somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) research; comparative analysis of potential for success in SCNT and induced p...

Employee attendance: good policy makes good sense

Risk assessment: good science for good decisions.

A registry including information about nearly 1,600 cases of retinoblastoma diagnosed in Britain has been created at the Childhood Cancer Research Group. Cases have been classified as 'old germ cell mutation', 'new germ cell mutation' or 'sporadic non-hereditary'. For a population-based group of 918 cases diagnosed between 1962 and 1985 we have calculated the proportions of unilateral/bilateral...

An injection of good sense

The commonest myth about science in the media is that journalists are interested only in doom and disaster. The second commonest is that rare reports of good news are invariably ruined by error and sensationalism. The UK media on 10 March provided ample evidence to explode these myths simultaneously. The occasion was the publication of two closely linked papers (Science 2000, 287:1809-1815 and ...