THE SOCIAL CONTROL OF SCIENCE.

The discuses on the different forms of social controls on the use of applied science in the issue of production of lethal military weapons, or other devices purposely or inadvertently harmful to large numbers of human beings. The author points out that among the forms of social controls of science such as individual, inadvertent, market, university and the government controls, it is the latter that present the major mechanism for social control of science. The government agencies may exert control over applied science in several ways which includes the regulations on the use of products marked to be harmful or dangerous, by the way funds are allocated for research and development aimed at specific end-products and by the thing government agencies build or buy.