ABSTRACT
There are many different approaches that society, and law representing society, can take to deal with the kinds of experiments in which its members engage that put others, and sometimes themselves, at risk. An important facet of the economic approach to social control of experimentation is information. The moral approach to remediation for injuries caused by various kinds of experimentation that involve the safety of others has roots in the bible and religious commentary. Media of various kinds surround us, pelting us with reports, sometimes backed by facts, about the consequences of experimentation throughout society. By comparison with those who devise technologies to meet consumer wants and desires, the main goal of scientists is to acquire information about the impact of technologies in various stages of experimentation. Those who conduct experiments, both scientists and businesspersons, will tend to have attitudes that strongly favor experimentation and tend to minimize risk—especially when they are not subjects of experiments themselves.
