Although the cost already borne by the people of Indochina in terms of human deaths and injuries is staggering, still more suffering awaits them as a consequence of the lingering effects of the new use of an old weapon — environmental warfare — on a scale never before seen. In a deliberate effort to control the...
Weather is often used as a catch-all explanation by government and business to explain rising food prices. For example, last spring it was said that meat prices rose because of monsoons, floods, droughts, hurricanes ... not a word about...
The SFVN report says: "Weather modification could be used to achieve longer-range military, economic, or political effects than we generally think of in conventional warfare. For instance, strategic rain-making could be used to slow...
In the first sessions changes in standard teaching methods were relatively superficial: "pelvic models" were each paid $25 for each teaching session. In each teaching session, four or five medical students did a bimanual pelvic...
A feminist perspective would not hail new technological developments as "liberating" because it would realize that the oppression of women is not the result of biology but of the social constructs around it. In this respect, it is...
Eugenics claims to apply genetic principles to the "improvement" of mankind. There are two general subdivisions in its efforts: Positive eugenics—increasing the reproduction of especially ''fit" individuals, and Negative eugenics—reducing...
In the classroom, the myth of an apolitical, benevolent science prevails. The training of a scientist involves a total submersion in technical material with little if any, historical or philosophical perspective. Research productivity is...
Is there a conflict of interest between women's values and the values of science? If so, how will it be affected by the entrance of increasing numbers of women into the professions? If we are to accept the dominant liberal ideology of...
During the years in which the women's liberation movement has been taking shape, a great emphasis has been placed on what are called leaderless, structureless groups as the main — if not sole — organizational form of the movement. The...
