It's old news that science is selling out to big business - patenting non-synthetic genes being an example of the sad, sad extent. Let us never forget the Mertonian principles!
Mertonian principles
1942, Robert Merton wrote of four principles composing the normative structure of science:
1.universalism denoting the impersonal character of knowledge claims
2.communalism, or common ownership of discoveries
3.disinterestedness commitment to truth for its own sake
4.organized skepticism,referring to the suspension of judgement until conclusive evidence appears
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