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Nanotechnology 'culture war' possible, says Yale study http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1228763741
Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. The report is published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.... When shown balanced information about the risks and benefits of nanotechnology, study participants became highly divided on its safety compared to a group not shown such information.
The determining factor in how people responded was their cultural values, according to Dan Kahan, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor at Yale Law School and lead author of the study. "People who had more individualistic, pro-commerce values, tended to infer that nanotechnology is safe," said Kahan, "while people who are more worried about economic inequality read the same information as implying that nanotechnology is likely to be dangerous."
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So pro-commerce folks tend to trust commerce, while others question commerce's motives. Wonder which side is "right"?
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Given the evidence gathering on this site, I'd lean toward the "questioning the dominant economic paradigm," given that it is in the process of effing killing us.
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