Abstract
Acknowledging that scientific research today is mainly conducted in the private sphere with commercial interests (or values) in mind, becomes crucial for understanding the roles of values in science today, as well as to imagining ways of counteracting some of the undesirable influence of such values. In the contribution to this symposium, I continue to argue in this direction, showing how different institutional frameworks (i.e., funding, regulatory, political, and academic institutions) tend to promote, primarily, commercial and private interests, even in situations with high social stakes.
