Does science have morals

Answer 1

Only ethics, morality differs from culture to culture. An area of study has no morals. Only individuals and organizations have morals or ethics or morality. So one can hope that scientists have high ethical standards. Joncey

ANSWER: Science has the scientific method which is as popular with scientists today as morals is with religious figures. One might hope that scientist have high ethical standards and there are probably some that do, but it only takes a glance at today's world to see that many scientists have abandoned ethics for prestige and money. Take a look at the whole global warming debate...where are the ethical standards here? The medical establishment in the western world wants to regulate the vitamin industry so that only big pharmaceuticals can sell them, billions of dollars spent on cancer "research" for more than fifty years and more people are dying of cancer today than were fifty years ago. The whole HIV=AIDS fiasco is perhaps the greatest example of the low ethical standards that scientists are operating under today. Here's a theory that under the scientific method doesn't even qualify as a theory and yet in the lay world it is regarded as fact. More money is spent on selling everybody on the idea of testing for HIV than is spent on any alternative view to the cause of AIDS. This so-called theory has failed every prediction put forth and can't explain any resulting behavior. It is called a virus (retro-virus) and yet it acts like no other virus on the planet. Chicken pox is a virus and if you tested positive for chicken pox and you didn't show any symptoms of the virus, the positive means that the ant-bodies have handled the virus. But not so for HIV where the anti-bodies present is claimed to mean you have a deadly virus that will kill you maybe next year, maybe five years from now or maybe never, but be rest assured that the medical establishment will do all it can to shove toxic chemicals down your body to kill the virus which they believe causes AIDS.

We have scientist who are building bigger particle accelerators so they might duplicate a black hole with no regard for the consequences and more than willing to risk our entire existence just to see if they can do it, and they do this at the expense of public money. High ethical standards mean nothing when the mind that applies it has such low regard for his fellow humans. It is the scientific method that will keep scientists honest and ethical, and they won't adhere to it as long as the general public doesn't even know what is meant by scientific method. Too many of these guys are no better than snake oil salesman, and aren't nearly as interesting or congenial.

Answer 2

Science does have morals , to ask. The main and most essential moral of science is to ask questions and observe things.