Manuela Fernandez Pinto (Universidad de los Andes)
While concurring with the claim that the commercialization of science has contributed to public mistrust, I argue that the relation between commercially-driven research and trustworthiness is complex. Using examples from medical research, I first argue that the public trust of science might be necessary but not sufficient for a proper relation between science and society. Second, I distinguish between narrow and broad epistemic trustworthiness. Research might be epistemically trustworthy according to a narrow view, but untrustworthy from a broader perspective, making the conditions for epistemic trust difficult to assess. A more fine-grained analysis is still needed to better understand it.
