id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_bhxurxt5zjesvg7m53kkjgrd5i Arnon Keren Science and Informed, Counterfactual, Democratic Consent 2015 16 .pdf application/pdf 5115 291 53 On many science-related policy questions, the public is unable to make informed decisions, because James Fishkin have both suggested therefore that on certain science-related issues, public policy Counterfactual Informed Democratic Decision (CIDD). scientific knowledge would often not allow the public to make informed decisions, because the actual informed consent cannot be obtained because of a patient's lack of decision-making capacity, conform not to actual democratic decisions, but to what the public would have decided upon, if it is not based on an actual democratic decision, but instead conforms to a Counterfactual Informed informed consent in the medical context suggests that under certain conditions, such decision should and science's significant effect on the public may suggest that an actual democratic decision would CIDDs therefore do not have the same normative import as counterfactual informed decisions informed counterfactual democratic decisions of communities. difference between the decision made through a CIDD and actual public opinion may suggest to the ./cache/work_bhxurxt5zjesvg7m53kkjgrd5i.pdf ./txt/work_bhxurxt5zjesvg7m53kkjgrd5i.txt