Back Talk: Kenneth Miller
Christine Smallwood
Cell biologist Kenneth Miller discusses the dangers of politicized science.
2008
2007
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Du Côté de Chez Madame Defarge
Alexander Cockburn : Native Americans
These days, even London and Paris seem a bit like North Korea.
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False Prophets
Patricia J. Williams : Racism & Discrimination
James Watson continues his long and well-documented history of baselessly biologizing social stereotypes.
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People Burn Here
Illegal immigrants are the invisible victims of the California wildfires.
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Root and Branch
Ian Hacking : Genetics & Genetic Engineering
A Canadian philosopher surveys some of the livelier flashpoints in America's battle over evolution.
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John Gofman's Nuclear Courage
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.
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NASA Scientists Challenge Security Rules
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.
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Putting Science in the Dock
Judges' ability to discriminate against expert witnesses has ended up empowering large corporations.
2006
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A Passion for Pluto
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.
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Science and the First Amendment
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.
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Experimental Art
Alan Lightman makes scientists into artists in his new book The Discoveries, promoting original journal articles as "the great novels and symphonies of science."
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Freezing Their Assets
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.
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Political Science
Bryan Farrell : Global Warming & Climate Change
NASA climatologist James E. Hansen won't let political pressure from the Bush Administration blunt the urgency of his research on global warming: It's not too late to mitigate the damage.
2005
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Brave Neuro World
Kathryn Schulz : Medicine/Drugs
As neurotechnology expands our abilities to rejuvenate aging brains, rebound from trauma and enhance moods or sexual prowess, we need a consistent set of neuroethics about how that technology should be used.
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Darwin and God
Dr. Marc Siegel : Religious Fundamentalism
Darwin's discoveries about evolution never argued against the existence of God. And the theory of "intelligent design" is a dangerous attempt to undermine science and justify a literal reading of the Bible.
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The Other 1905 Revolution
Physics was on the verge of something big at the turn of the century, and it took an Einstein to ask the big question in the right way.
2004
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The New Scopes Trials
Eric Alterman & Mark Green : George W. Bush Administration
When a President starts appointing scientists as he does campaign staffers, we risk an era of Lysenkoism in America.
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Lost in Space
Katha Pollitt : George W. Bush
Life is full of mysteries and space is such an expensive one.
2003
2002
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Big Pharma, Bad Science
Nathan Newman : Medicine/Drugs
Biomedical research has been compromised by cozy relations with the pharmaceutical industry.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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