Against "Sociobiology" A letter from Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin and members of the Sociobiology Study Group outlining criticisms of, and objections to, EO…
The Politics of Biological Determinism Stephen Jay Gould tackles the notion that existing social hierarchies reflect innate abilities in his essay on the heritability of intelligence.
Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism Debate In the second part of his critique of 'ultra Darwinism', Gould tackles the methodology of evolutionary psychology while defending the idea that…
Darwinian Fundamentalism Paleontologist and science writer Stephen Jay Gould tackles 'ultra-Darwinism' in the first part of his response to Daniel C. Dennett's 'Darwin's…
Medicine and the Spanish Civil War A historical survey of medicine in Spain during the Spanish Civil War
Emergence of Modern Genetics in Spain and the Effects of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) on Its Development An assessment of the effects of the Spanish Civil War on the development of genetics in Spain.
Rationality & Science - Noam Chomsky Chomsky on rationality & science. This essay formed part of a Z-Papers special issue on the topic in 1995.
When hospital is a prison Ben Goldacre on the use of psychiatry as a form of social control, and the politically-motivated diagnosis of mental illness. Feb 2003.
Goldacre: 'Argument is about capitalism, not food ' Ben Goldacre points to the analogies between the 'organic' food argument and the BigPharma vs homeopathy/'alternative medicine' - mainly that all…
US military researching microwave crowd control weapons The United States military is still researching a controversial microwave weapon that could be…
Stephen Jay Gould: What Does it Mean to Be a Radical? Marxist biologists Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins remember the life and career of…
The political economy of hybrid corn Marxist geneticist Richard Lewontin and economist Jean-Pierre Berlan discuss the economics of and role of capital in the production of hybrid…
