1. 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.
2. Astrology
   True or False?
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   
3. Canada's Science Library Closures Mirror Bush's Playbook
   Similar moves by US Republican president met sharp backlash from 10,000 scientists.
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   The Harper government is now eliminating seven Department of Fishery libraries containing one of the world's most comprehensive collections of information on fisheries, aquatic sciences and nautical sciences.
4. Changing minds on a changing climate
   What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
5. Connexions Digest
   Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1991
   
6. 'The Death of Evidence' in Canada: Scientists' Own Words
   Data distorted for 'propaganda' and other complaints against the Harper government made at last week's Ottawa rally
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   
7. Finding Answers
   The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1993
   Outlines the essentials of how to find and use information.
   
8. Harper's Seven-Year War on Science
   Chris Turner's treatise on Tory anti-empiricism should spark outrage. But those in power won't see it.
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   
9. Key evidence in EU's risk assessment of glyphosate must not remain 'trade secret'
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   The chemical industry and the European Food Safety Authority are refusing to disclose key scientific evidence about glyphosate's risks, citing 'trade secrets' protection, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. They must be compelled to publish the 'mysterious three' scientific studies EFSA used to assess glyphosate as 'unlikely' to cause cancer to humans - contradicting the IARC's view.
10. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the history of life by describing the ten greatest inventions of evolution (including DNA, photosynthesis, sex, and sight), based on their historical impact, role in organisms today, and relevance to current controversies.
11. Meet the Robin Hood of Science
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, providing access to nearly every scientific paper ever published immediately to anyone who wants it.
12. 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.
13. The War on Science
    Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Do No Science, Hear No Science, Speak No Science -- that is the Harper agenda. And if this agenda is most evident and most pronounced in environmental science, that's simply because it is the field most likely to uncover evidence that the government's paramount goal -- to free the country's resource extraction industries from oversight in the name of rapid expansion -- is wrongheaded, reckless, and damaging.
14. What's Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada's Science Libraries?
    Scientists reject Harper government claims vital material is being saved digitally
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations has been lost forever. Many collections ended up in dumpsters while others such as Winnipeg's historic Freshwater Institute library were scavenged by citizens, scientists and local environmental consultants. Others were burned or went to landfills.

Experts on Scientific Information in the Sources Directory

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