ABSTRACT Although science presents ethical challenges to society, little is known about the ways in which adults express ethical concerns in everyday science-related situations. This study analyzed the ethical expressions in 1079 reader comments to online news coverage of animal experimentation and climate change in Israel. Some forms of ethical concerns were expressed in many reader comments following animal experimentation (70%) and climate change (47%) coverage. Opposition to animal experimentation was primarily expressed emotionally, whereas comments supporting these experiments and complex stances towards them were mainly couched in ethical reasoning. Ethical expressions related to climate change primarily drew on ethical concepts. The importance of trust in scientific practice and institutions was evident in both issues. Formal ethics, as expressed by using ethical concepts or ethical reasoning, were found to be present in public discourse, suggesting it can serve as a foundation to enhance public engagement with bioethics.

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读者对动物实验和气候变化的在线评论中的伦理表达

摘要尽管科学向社会提出了道德挑战，但对于成年人在日常与科学有关的情况下表达道德关切的方式知之甚少。这项研究分析了1079位读者对以色列有关动物实验和气候变化的在线新闻报道的道德表达。在进行动物实验（70％）和气候变化（47％）之后，许多读者的评论中表达了某些形式的道德关注。对动物实验的反对主要是在情感上表达的，而支持这些实验的评论和对它们的复杂立场主要是出于伦理推理。与气候变化有关的伦理表达主要借鉴伦理概念。在这两个问题上，信任科学实践和机构的重要性都是显而易见的。正式道德