Chapitre 4. Avis N°2025-47 (10 juin 2025) : manipuler les virus, manipuler le climat ? Comment juger de ce qui est responsable en recherche ?
Abstract
In this opinion, COMETS questions the responsibility of scientists when conducting research that presents a high potential for collective risks to populations and/or the environment. This recurring question of research ethics is particularly acute today, due to several factors: the growing power and accessibility of technologies capable of causing large-scale, serious, and even irreversible damage; the context of environmental and health crises, which may lead some to place sometimes excessive hopes in scientific research and encourage risk-taking without a shared framework; the context in which research itself is evolving, marked by increasing competition between teams and between states, and by the promotion of high-risk, high-gain research.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
Flooding and Environmental Impact
Research
Science
and Academia
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal international de bioéthique et d éthique des sciences
- Volume
- Vol. 36
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 77–114
- Publication date
- 27 January 2026
- Language
- FR