[open-science] JennyMolloy and PeterMR representing OKF at Open Science Summit

Fri Oct 28 17:54:26 UTC 2011

I believe that we are better off talking about *an ethical spectrum of
"public goods"* that are served by open access... Based in the ethos of
science and the now commonly accepted notion that *access to knowledge is a
fundamental human right* [SEE for ex. The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, Article 19: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and
expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through
any media and regardless of frontiers." ]  Democracy is founded in
transparent, open access to knowledge resources...

IMO... This spectrum includes: human health and public health, agrarian and
agricultural health, conservation and biodiversity, education and science, *
non-destructive* technology...

As noted by others, the risks of exaggerated assertions of risks/benefits
are diminished credibility and violation of the fundamental principle that
policy and decisions be clearly based in evidence...

Tom

*Tom Moritz
1968 1/2 South Shenandoah Street,
Los Angeles, California 90034-1208  USA
+1 310 963 0199 (cell) [GMT -8]
tommoritz (Skype)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tmoritz*

“Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει” (Everything flows, nothing stands still.) --*
Heraclitus *
"It is . . . easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague." --
C.S. Peirce  *
*"Kathambhutassa me rattindiva vitipatanti" (“The days and nights are
relentlessly passing; how well am I spending my time?”) -- *"Ten Subjects
for Frequent Recollection by One Who Has Gone Forth"*
*"Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux."  ("One must imagine Sisyphus happy.")
-- Camus*

     Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Maloney, Christopher (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> <maloneyc at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov> wrote:
>
>> As for the PR point, I also agree with Pawel that it makes the open
>> movement too easy to ridicule.
>
>
> .. or that the open movement is too radical. In which case, where should I
> go- what groups etc.- where open access is taken to these extremes?
>
> thanks,
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
>
> _______________________________________________
> open-science mailing list
> open-science at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/attachments/20111028/4547840c/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: tree.gif
Type: image/gif
Size: 278 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/attachments/20111028/4547840c/attachment-0003.gif>