Ethical Advice to Policy in its Problematic Context: Expertise and Trust

Global Bioethics 17 (1):173-180 (2004)
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Abstract

This paper discusses the role of the expert in giving advice to policy makers. It argues that, since biotechnology is an area characterised by value conflicts and fragile public trust in scientific experts and authorities, broader consultation processes which include both ethicists and laypeople should be conducted.“Expertise, it may be argued, sacrifices the insight of common sense to intensity of experience… The expert fails to realise that every judgement he makes not purely factual in nature brings with it a scheme of values which has no special validity about it” (Laski, 1930).

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