Science and Supposition
Patricia J. Williams : Medicine/Drugs
The new Obama protocols on scientific research will influence not just stem cells but climate change, genetics, sex education and food safety.
Patricia J. Williams : Medicine/Drugs
The new Obama protocols on scientific research will influence not just stem cells but climate change, genetics, sex education and food safety.
JoAnn Wypijewski : Law & Justice
As the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reviews defrocked priest Paul Shanley's conviction on child rape charges, "repressed memory" will be held up to scientific scrutiny.


Christine Smallwood : Religion
A conversation with astrophysicist Adam Frank about science, religion and manifestations of the sacred in the physical world.
Sonia Shah : Human Rights
After eight years of being sidelined by the Bush administration, many in notoriously apolitical professions are ready to stand up and be counted on the social and ethical implications of their work.
Cell biologist Kenneth Miller discusses the dangers of politicized science.
Alexander Cockburn : Native Americans
These days, even London and Paris seem a bit like North Korea.
Patricia J. Williams : Racism & Discrimination
James Watson continues his long and well-documented history of baselessly biologizing social stereotypes.
Illegal immigrants are the invisible victims of the California
wildfires.
Ian Hacking : Genetics & Genetic Engineering
A Canadian philosopher surveys some of the livelier flashpoints in America's battle over evolution.
Joseph J. Mangano : Anti-Nuclear Activism
Remembering an eminent scientist who fought tirelessly to protect human health from the hazards of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
Dave Lindorff : Privacy Rights
Wary of government efforts to silence global warming research, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and Goddard Space Flight Center are going to court to block new security rules.
Judges' ability to discriminate against expert witnesses has ended up empowering large corporations.
Pluto's demotion from a planet to a dwarf isn't the work of mean-spirited Grinches. It is a necessary part of the same process that got Pluto discovered in the first place.
Patricia J. Princehouse : Education Policy & Reform
If you can lie about science and get away with it, you can lie about anything. That's why we must say no to ideological zealots who are waging war against science and against democracy itself.
Alan Lightman makes scientists into artists in his new book The Discoveries, promoting original journal articles as "the great novels and symphonies of science."
Nicholas von Hoffman : Economics
Among the superrich, there's a growing desire to freeze themselves and their bank accounts in hopes of rising again. Talk about Groundhog Day.
