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Institutional policies and scientific practice have changed, in response to public concern about scientific misconduct. Not much research has been done either to understand the phenomenon or to evaluate the responses.

'Acceptable Evidence' enters into how the discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead, this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk.

The challenge is there: the social problems of technology--problems related to the environment, the energy crisis, traffic problems, social engineering--so discipline-spanning in their interactions with other realms of life ... are, at bottom, problems of social and political values .... They cannot be solved, in any realistic and adequate way, without the collaboration of philosopher-generalists, broad humanists, and social science generalists working with engineers and technological experts .... The more multidisciplinary technological problems become, the more important such programs [in science, technology, and society] will turn out to be. Hans Lenk, Research in Philosophy & Technology 7 (1984): 50, 52.

FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW -- 2 INTERACTIONS: DEFINING THE PROBLEMS -- 3 INTERVENTIONS: EXAMINING THE RANGE OF SOCIOTECHNICAL RESPONSES -- 4 CROSS-CUTTING THEMES -- 5 FORMAL EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS ON CLIMATE, ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY -- 6 INFORMAL EDUCATION ON CLIMATE, ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY -- 7 PERSPECTIVES OF ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND NATIVE AMERICANS -- Appendix A: Workshop Agendas -- Appendix B: Participants Lists -- Appendix C: Summary of Evaluations