- 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.
- Animal Defence League of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Bad Pharma, Bad Journalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
‘The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal’, from Ben Goldacre's new book, Bad Pharma presents a disturbing picture emerges of corporate drug abuse.
- 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.
- Connexions Library: Science Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on science.
- Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
- A field guide to critical thinking
Resource Type: Article
- The fruits of protest
Russia has shelved plans to break up the historic Pavlovsk seed bank
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The Pavlovsk open air seedbank in St. Petersburg maintains 12,000 species of fruit trees, berries, and flowers. Plans to auction off the land have been placed on hold after protests.
- GMO Propaganda and the Sociology of Science
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In August of 2014, the website Gawker revealed documents that demonstrated the lengths to which the global chemical giant Monsanto would go in order to control the narrative about their products – in particular, their genetically modified crops. While we all like to believe that our scientific/rational brains see through the transparent marketing, public relations rhetoric exists because it greatly sedates critical thought.
- 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.
- Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given these individuals a soapbox and allowed the public to believe there are divisions in the mainstream scientific opinion on global warming where none exist.
- Monsanto and Its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Next year, the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the finest laws our Congress has ever passed. It is a vital investigative tool for exposing government and corporate wrongdoing.
- 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.
- Nuremberg Code
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation set as a result of the subsequent Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Polluters
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
Provides an account of the American chemical industry and its effect on the environment.
- Retraction Watch
Resource Type: Website
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process.
- Rigging the Science of GMO Ecotoxicity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Scientific article about dangers of GMO plants and techniques used by developers to disguise harms to get GMOs through testing.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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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