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Record W349475136

Nanotechnology: Facts and Fictions

2004· article· en· W349475136 on OpenAlex
Timothy Caulfield

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueHealth law review · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBiomedical Ethics and Regulation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGovernment (linguistics)Societal impact of nanotechnologyEnthusiasmStakeholderPolitical scienceNanotechnologyApplications of nanotechnologyPublic relationsEngineering ethicsSociologyEngineeringPsychologyMaterials science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Similar to other scientific areas, such as genetics and stem cell research, nanotechnology has sparked both public enthusiasm and social concern. Though hardly a new field of research, it is only recently that nanotechnology has caught attention of popular media and major public funding agencies. As a result of these developments, nanotechnology is now focus of policy discussions and ethical debates. In this special edition of Health Law Review we explore both scientific and social issues associated with nanotechnology. We have brought together a remarkable, interdisciplinary, collection of authors, including lawyers, philosophers, sociologists, communications experts, and nanotechnology scientists; perfect team to provide information about reality of current science and to analyse complex and still forming social concerns associated with nanotechnology. A theme that runs through many of papers in this collection relates to that surrounds nanotechnology. There are already a number of outspoken stakeholders that are both actively promoting as well as crusading against nanotechnology--a reality explored in paper by Einsiedel and McMullen. Groups such as Canada's ETC Group, for example, have gone so far as to call for a complete moratorium on nanotechnology research, portraying severe environmental and social concerns. Advocates of research, such as those within government who view nanotechnology as an important plank of emerging knowledge-based economy, emphasize theoretical benefits and commercial potential. Though these stakeholder groups often serve to facilitate public dialogue on important issues, they also tend to push debate to extremes and cloud public discussions with highly speculative risks and benefits. Regardless of source of hype, our experience with biotechnology shows that too much hype can be detrimental. It can adversely affect public trust, private investment and policy debate. As noted by Williams-Jones, if governments, academic scientists, and industry wish to effectively develop potential of nanoscience and nanotechnologies, they must be cognisant of dangers of over-hyping research and losing public trust. Countering hype must start with an appreciation of science and its likely applications. To this end, Tyshenko's piece covers controversial area of molecular nanotechnology. And by separating the reality of nanoscience and nanotechnology from fantasy, Wolkow's paper seeks to provide a more moderate vision of this field of study than is often found in popular press. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.984
Threshold uncertainty score0.134

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.381
Teacher spread0.333 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it