Science under Fire
Science under Fire Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that "tenured radicals" have coopted…
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Science under Fire
Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that "tenured radicals" have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrupt American culture.Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority.
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 Some progressives, especially in the universities, worry that science's celebration of objectivity and neutrality masks its attachment to Eurocentric and patriarchal values.