Category: Culture & Ethics
More on Peter Gleick’s Relationship to the National Center for Science Education
The NCSE website had clearly stated, as of January 13, more than a month ago, that Gleick had joined the board. Was this not so?
Peter Gleick of the National Center for Science Education: Oh, the Company They Keep
I would think that serving on the group’s board, as per NCSE’s website, counts as a “formal tie.”
When Ethics “Evolve,” Beware
In 1944, the U.S. government allowed John Cutler, a physician with the U.S. Public Health Service, to infect Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea without their consent.
Born on the Same Day, What if Lincoln and Darwin Met?
For the body politic, policies that take natural selection seriously will increasingly restrain human life and freedom in the face of competing animal and ecological interests.
Republicans and Science (as Opposed to Liberals and the Science They’ve Politicized)
Hot-button scientific topics have been politicized. Not by Republicans, however.
