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Laddar... Science under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern Americaav Andrew Jewett
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"Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that "tenured radicals" have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some progressives, especially in the universities, worry that science's celebration of objectivity and neutrality masks its attachment to Eurocentric and patriarchal values. As we grapple with the implications of climate change and revolutions in fields from biotechnology to robotics to computing, it is crucial to understand how scientific authority functions-and where it has run up against political and cultural barriers. Science under Fire reconstructs a century of battles over the cultural implications of science in the United States. Andrew Jewett reveals a persistent current of criticism which maintains that scientists have injected faulty social philosophies into the nation's bloodstream under the cover of neutrality. This charge of corruption has taken many forms and appeared among critics with a wide range of social, political, and theological views, but common to all is the argument that an ideologically compromised science has produced an array of social ills. Jewett shows that this suspicion of science has been a major force in American politics and culture by tracking its development, varied expressions, and potent consequences since the 1920s. Looking at today's battles over science, Jewett argues that citizens and leaders must steer a course between, on the one hand, the naïve image of science as a pristine, value-neutral form of knowledge, and, on the other, the assumption that scientists' claims are merely ideologies masquerading as truths"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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This is all well and good, but another issue here is that each chapter reads like one run-on sentence, and there is something of a passive-aggressive quality to the whole book. It makes you wonder whether you're actually learning anything.
Probably the best way to approach this monograph is to read the introduction and the conclusion and then dip into the chapters that look most interesting. One of the pluses of this book is that the author does radiate a certain earnest sincerity. Ironically, speaking of distrust of science, Jewett did step away from physics because he really didn't want to serve the military-industrial complex as a young man. Two, what Jewett would really like to see is that scientists, as a group, break out of the pose of "disinterest" that public criticism often forces them into, and adopt a stance of engagement, as the best approach to dealing with the down-right dumb and dishonest elements that afflict debates over the role of science and technology in contemporary society. ( )