Nuclear and environmental historian Kate Brown, author of several notable books on nuclear disasters, spoke with SftP about the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, crises of nuclear energy, and what are at stake for ecology and health.
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Graves and Goodman are longstanding members of SftP. Their new book, 'Racism, Not Race', clearly presents the science of human variation and its connections to histories of power and oppression.
It is rather surprising to read a defense of E. O. Wilson in the 'New Left Review'. Its misunderstanding of science's role in society and inability to see ideology in science are baffling for self-proclaimed leftists.
E. O. Wilson's lasting influence on scientific racism has long been under scrutiny. However, few knew the story of how Wilson strategically propagated race pseudoscience through his intimate relationship with white supremacists.
A radical perspective of science recognizes that science is an economic activity, controlled, like the rest of society, by forces that we set out to understand and oppose.
The gonadotropin-releasing hormone agents have gone through various iterations of use associated with Cold War epistemology. It was not until the 1990s, when these puberty blockers were first used in transgender youth care, the discourse...
Science is inextricably enmeshed with all that is human, and at the same time a path to access to the natural world. Marxism as the unsurpassed philosophy reveals science's history and informs our work toward a future.
Este artigo oferece uma história crítica do laboratório, elucidando a dialética entre o desenvolvimento da ciência do laboratório e as mudanças socioeconômicas maiores, ou seja, o capitalismo, dirigido e impulsionado pela formação e...
Uncertainty anchors our fear of change, / the sudden awareness of unforeseen circumstances. / We have seen the circumstances. / We have survived them / but many haven’t.
Noah Hutton's In Silico documents the rise and fall of the Human Brain Project—a 10-year, billion-euro failed attempt to simulate the human brain. The project's spectacular size serves as a magnifying lens held to the system at large...