Does society need protecting from scientific advances? Most emphatically not, so long as scientists themselves and their employers are committed to full disclosure of what they know.
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Wolpert, L. Is science dangerous?. Nature 398, 281–282 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/18543
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