- Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
- The Anatomy of Judgment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Tracing the emergence of science and the social institutions that govern it, The Anatomy of Judgment is an odyssey into what human thinking or judgment mean.
- An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality.
- Anti-Science: Left and Right Together?
A Systematic Attack on Rationality
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The suggestion that left and right thinking may be converging on matters scientific will, no doubt, be offensive to some on the left. After all, the right chooses myth over evolution, and oil profits over climate science.
- Bold Scientists
Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Accounts of scientists working in the public interest despite powerful opposition.
- Bouncing Back Against the Corruption of Science in Capitalist Society
Part 2 of a 2-part series: The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social Change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Part two in a look at capitalism and the role of science, and the strong evidence that science can be on the side of social justice and social change.
- Canada Science and Technology Museum and Canada Agriculture Museum
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Library: Science Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on science.
- Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
So I'm a skeptic, but with a small S, not capital S. I don’t belong to skeptical societies. I don’t hang out with people who self-identify as capital-S Skeptics. Or Atheists. Or Rationalists. When people like this get together, they become tribal. They pat each other on the back and tell each other how smart they are compared to those outside the tribe. But belonging to a tribe often makes you dumber.
- Downstream and Upstream Ecologists
The People, Organizatons, and Ideas Behind the Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Mercier discusses the environmental movement and identifies specialized ecologists of different spectrums.
- Genes, Cells and Brains
The Promethean Promises of the New Biology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
An argument exposing how the bioscience industry has repeatedly failed to produce on its promises.
- How Big Pharma Infiltrated the Boston Museum of Science
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Mental illness is a highly stigmatized, life-long condition, that millions do not even realize they have and only a pharmaceutical drug can fix says Pharma and its operatives.
- Malik, Kenan
Resource Type: Website
Website and blog of Kenan Malik, featuring articles on race, identity, multiculturalism, diversity, and censorship.
- Nature, science & power
Questions need to be asked...
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2014
Here many questions will be asked, some answers attempted. This blog connects to a new book: Bold Scientists: dispatches from the battle for honest science, published in 2014 by Between the Lines.
- Open Letter on the Coming Crisis in Scientific Research
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The US government threatens, by closing scientific programs, by muzzling its scientists, and possibly by distorting scientific facts, to inflict an intolerable loss to humankind’s collective understanding of crucial elements of planetary survival. Scientists in the US have shown their alarm at the threat by beginning a plan for a massive protest march in Washington this spring. In order to limit the damage, it is incumbent on the other nations of the world to expand their investment in science to maintain scientific integrity in the service of human and planetary well-being.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism. Topic of the week is Violence Against Journalists. Book of the week is Bold Scientists.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
Science and its enemies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
Back to School
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
- People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Goodman offers his analysis of what is wrong with American society, and what could be done about it.
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Rationality/Science
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
- Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
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.
- Science and liberation
Science as human curiosity, as authority, and as business
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The conservative movement’s attack on science has several prongs. Where they can attain government office, as in Canada, they use the highly effective tools of funding and de-funding, and regulation and de-regulation, to control government scientists and embolden private interests. The goal is to transfer power and resources from public services and public science to private institutions, while often appealing to moral and religious doctrines in the process.
- Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- What Does Science Tell Us About Race?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Six points about the complex relation between scientific research and the reality of human group differences.
- Zapatistas urge scientists to join in building a better world
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
With all the damage that the capitalists have done to the people through their misuse of science, can we create a science that is truly human? Can we work collectively to defend life and humanity?
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