As a scientist myself (and one who takes the ethical dimension of my work very seriously) this contributes to an increasing unease I have about the ethics of some areas scientific research and the activities of some scientists. The fact that some medical insight might result appears to be secondary to the fact that this research is being conducted under the auspices of the military.

There have been quite a number of articles recently on such ethical aspects of science (see recent issues for example of the New Scientist and, in terms of general public perception, there is "growing sense of dislocation between scientists and the public" (not my words but those of the one of the UK's leading experts on the public perception of science).

Peace

moo