[Antiscientific attitudes in open society].
The social controversy created in regard to the use and experiments with transgenic seeds and organisms serves as an example to illustrate the effects and consequences that can lead to antiscientific attitudes, which have gained great force in contemporary society. It has been suggested that the same functional relationship, from which the Enlightenment, science, and liberalism were born, is currently being applied in the opposite direction, so that the current antiscientific attitudes, along with the support they receive from post-modern thought, can end up undermining the bases of an open and democratic society. The consequences of this phenomenon are already manifested by the approval of certain regulations that lack scientific basis.
Pérez Iglesias
Juan Ignacio
JI
Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, España.
D001290:Attitude; D003709:Democracy; D030841:Food, Genetically Modified; D010684:Philosophy; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified; D012586:Science; D012961:Sociology