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<p align="justify"> In the case of human clinical trials, ethical aspects are judged on the quality of the scientific protocol. It would not be ethical to use humans as tests if researchers are not certain to have exploitable results. Furthermore, the question of consent also needs to be adressed. While we cannot ask an animal or a plant for their consent, ethical commites insist on having a proof of consent in the European Union. This is particularly important since Anglo-Saxon scientific reviews refuse to publish papers if the have not been approved by an ethics commite. We can ask ourselves if the importance researchers give to Bioethics is truly personal or if they do not regard it as only constraint for publication. </p> | <p align="justify"> In the case of human clinical trials, ethical aspects are judged on the quality of the scientific protocol. It would not be ethical to use humans as tests if researchers are not certain to have exploitable results. Furthermore, the question of consent also needs to be adressed. While we cannot ask an animal or a plant for their consent, ethical commites insist on having a proof of consent in the European Union. This is particularly important since Anglo-Saxon scientific reviews refuse to publish papers if the have not been approved by an ethics commite. We can ask ourselves if the importance researchers give to Bioethics is truly personal or if they do not regard it as only constraint for publication. </p> | ||
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+ | <p align="justify"> When it comes to bacteria however, what point of view do we have? Humans generally have a vision of the world which is anthropocentric, we consider ourselves superior to other organisms. For example, during the Nuremberg trials against Nazi doctors, Carl Brandt (health minister and part of the German military) was sentenced for having lead experiments on humans in concentration camps. When do these acts become wrong? | ||
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+ | Depuis plusieurs décennies, il existe une course à la technologie informatique et biologique par | ||
+ | exemple. En Chine, récemment, on a fait des essais sur des embryons humains. Où est la limite à la | ||
+ | thérapie embryonnaire ? En Europe, l’éthique freine la recherche. En Corée du Sud, on peut | ||
+ | « ressusciter » son animal de compagnie mort grâce au clonage. En Asie, les recherches sont | ||
+ | quasiment sans limites. Renoncer au prix Nobel pour ne pas dépasser les limites ? On a toute la | ||
+ | technologie pour et la facilité d’accès comme les sociétés créatrices d’enzymes | ||
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