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…
Technology, research, and the penetration of capital: the case of U.S. agriculture Economist Jean-Pierre Berlan and marxist geneticist Richard Lewontin reveal the politics and…
Hoax academic articles, media meddling, and problems with 'open access' as it exists. Some recent hoax articles are demonstrating the flaws in the control of information and particularly…
Ben Goldacre 'Steal This Chapter' Joseph K's 'favourite liberal', NHS doctor and science writer Ben Goldacre has written about bullshit medical research, bogus science reporting,…
Anti-vaccination crap undermines attempts to eradicate measles A paper in medical journal The Lancet last week shows that poor vaccination uptake in some European…
Revisiting the Scopes 'Monkey Trial' - radio feature In 1925, teacher John T. Scopes was tried in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching evolution in a science classroom. Stephen Jay Gould pointed out a…
