Valuing Knowledge: a Reply to the Epistemological Perspective on the Value of Gain-of-Function Experiments
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The central ethical claim of Casadevall et al. in “An Epistemological Perspective on the Value of Gain-of-Function Experiments Involving Pathogens with Pandemic Potential” (1) is that, when conducting risk-benefit analyses on studies that use gain-offunction (GOF) methods to create potential pandemic pathogens (PPP), we ought to explicitly account for the value of the “epistemic gains” of the experiment. That is, the value of knowledge derived from GOF/PPP studies is informed by its contribution to the body of microbiological knowledge amassed in recent years. They conclude from this (1) that
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