“A public understanding of science is not well served by shackling science to a national-security state”
The nuclear-winter debate has long since been forgotten, but you can still spy it...
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“…as a social activity, science is vulnerable to all the comedy inherent in any social activity: group thinking, self-pleasing, and running down the competition in order to get the customer’s (or, in this case, the government’s) cash”
What makes science science? The pious answers are: its ceaseless curiosity in the face...
“…the old notion of a scientific revolution that was really a revolution is regaining some credibility”
In the past several decades, certainly, the old lines between the history of astrology...
“One way or another, science really happens”
There has been much talk in the pop-sci world of “memes”—ideas that somehow manage...
“As any prediction involves uncertainty and uncertainty is anathema to scientists, meteorology seems condemned to exist in a fraught intellectual space”
Today’s climate change debate has evolved much like the forecasting controversy of the 1860s....