2014 - Page 5 of 8 - World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research

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16 April 2014

Empirical analysis and precaution: a feasible match
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Behaviorally evidence-informed policy
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Why the international drug conventions are the worst censorship of research since the Catholic Church banned the telescope
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The development and lack of application of GE animals in agriculture in North America
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The donation of human embryos for stem cell research
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The communication of science
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Nonviolence as a tool for the promotion of Human Rights
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16 April 2014

Reforms of the Academy of Sciences and Universities in Russia: political and scientific challenges
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16 April 2014

Is there a science of morality?

Research and Self Determination Index

The Research and Self-Determination Index measures the degree of freedom to investigate human biology and to exercise self-determination with regard to our bodies.
Expanding medical knowledge through research, enhancing patients’ well-being through medical treatment, and securing the best available treatment are universal aspirations shared by researchers, health care professionals and patients around the globe.
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Abortion

Abortion and contraception allow women to express their freedom of reproduction by exercising their right of self-determination over their bodies.
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Assisted reproduction

Access to assisted reproduction concerns our ability to expand our freedom of reproduction by offering us the opportunity to have children notwithstanding infertility.
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End of Life

End of life decisions concern our ability to make choices concerning the end of our lives and take of the form of refusal of life sustaining treatment, being help in committing suicide, choosing euthanasia, and make choices that must be upheld even when the person becomes unconscious.
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GM Crops

GM crops have contributed significantly to modern agriculture. Plant breeding using genetic modification techniques has led to improving crops in more targeted ways than classical breeding techniques.
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Research with embryo

Research with embryos and pre-embryos as well as therapeutic cloning concerns scientists’ freedom to investigate human biology as well as patients’ freedom to access regenerative medicine treatments that may be developed as a result of research with human embryonic stem cells.
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Right to science

The human right to science is recognized in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 15(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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Empirical analysis and precaution: a feasible match

Behaviorally evidence-informed policy

Why the international drug conventions are the worst censorship of research since the Catholic Church banned the telescope

The development and lack of application of GE animals in agriculture in North America

The donation of human embryos for stem cell research

The communication of science

Nonviolence as a tool for the promotion of Human Rights

Reforms of the Academy of Sciences and Universities in Russia: political and scientific challenges

Is there a science of morality?

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