 Many of the issues which arise in the course of the interaction between science or technology and society @-@ e.g. , the deleterious side effects of technology , or the attempts to deal with social problems through the procedures of science @-@ hang on the answers to questions which can be asked of science and yet which cannot be answered by science . I propose the term trans @-@ scientific for these questions since , though they are , <unk> speaking , questions of fact and can be stated in the language of science , they are unanswerable by science ; they transcend science . In so far as public policy involves trans @-@ scientific rather than scientific issues , the role of the scientist in contributing to the promulgation of such policy must be different from his role when the issues can be unambiguously answered by science . 
