Why do we still need participatory technology assessment?

Why do we still need participatory technology assessment?

The paper contributes to the current discussion on the role of participatory methods in the context of technology assessment (TA) and science and technology (S&T) governance. It is argued that TA has to be understood as a form of democratic policy consulting in the sense of the Habermasian model of a "pragmatist" relation of science and politics. This notion implies that public participation is...

The Asian Nuclear Medicine Board; Why Do We Need It?

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Why we still need grant peer review.

B ollen et al [1] propose a novel mechanism for allocating research funds that first distributes all available funds equally among all practising scientists and then requires them to transfer a portion of their annual funds to other scientists of their choice. This distributed mechanism, the authors suggest, will substantially reduce the cost of funding allocation, by making proposal drafting a...

Why do we need theories?

Theories organize knowledge and construct objectivity by framing observations and experiments. The elaboration of theoretical principles is examined in the light of the rich interactions between physics and mathematics. These two disciplines share common principles of construction of concepts and of the proper objects of inquiry. Theory construction in physics relies on mathematical symmetries ...

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