caa a22 4500 469101695 CHVBK 20180323133046.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00138787 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00138787 Science and social responsibility [Elektronische Daten] [Ronald Brunner, William Ascher] Science in the aggregate has not lived up to its promise to work for the benefit of society as a whole. This problem stems from the narrow perspectives that basic and applied researchers typically take to their work. Among the barriers to broadening those perspectives, the most tractable is the myth that the overriding purpose of science in human affairs is prediction; that such predictions are prerequisites for major policy decisions; and that scientific inputs to these decisions are objective and value-free. This article challenges the myth from three standpoints - epistemology, the historical context, and contemporary case studies - as a step toward improving the responsibility and accountability of science to society. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Brunner Ronald Center for Public Policy Research, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA aut Ascher William Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, 27708, Durham, NC, USA aut Policy Sciences Kluwer Academic Publishers 25/3(1992-08-01), 295-331 0032-2687 25:3<295 1992 25 11077 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138787 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138787 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brunner Ronald Center for Public Policy Research, University of Colorado, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ascher William Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, 27708, Durham, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Policy Sciences Kluwer Academic Publishers 25/3(1992-08-01), 295-331 0032-2687 25:3<295 1992 25 11077 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer