Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Diemer, Ulli
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions7.htm#Apr232016Publisher: Connexions
Date Written: 23/04/2017
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX24201
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
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