Science and politics

Ted Goertzel and Ben Goertzel, Linus Pauling A Life in Science and Politics. Basic Books, NY, 300 pp., (1995). 

Shay, Cari Lee Gabiou. "The transmutation of alchemy into science and political thought." PhD thesis, Univ. of Oregon, 1974. 

Bradstock, Andrew. "Restoring all things from the curse millenarianism, alchemy, science and politics in the writings of Gerrard Winstanley." In The arts of 17th-century science representations of the natural world in European and North American culture, eds. Claire Jowitt and Diane Watt. Aldershot Ashgate, 2002. 

Ruth Benedict, Race Science and Politics [1940] (Westport Greenwood, 1982), p. 126 Samuel Morton, Crania Americana (Philadelphia J. Dobson, 1839), p. 16 Gobineau, Inequality of the Human Races, p. 73, emphasis added Theodore Parker, The Aspect of Slavery in America [1858], Saint Bernard and Other Papers (Boston American Unitarian Association, 1911), pp. 271, 280, 276-277. 

Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture (Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1934), p. 15 Race Science and Politics [1940] (Westport Greenwood Press, 1982), pp. 97-98. 

Ruth Benedict, The Races of Mankind [1943], in Race Science and Politics, pp. 176-177. The work was also produced as a filmstrip, a traveling exhibit, and an animated cartoon. 

Pizzi RA. The science and politics of stem cells, Modern Drug Discovery 5 32-37... 

Boyle, like many scholars of his day, studied and published in a number of areas including theology, philosophy, science, and political thought. In the area of chemistry, Boyle, in the tradition of van Helmont, studied gases. Aided by his assistant Robert Hooke, Boyle used a vacuum pump to conduct experiments in which he discovered air was necessary for life, sound does not travel in a vacuum, and that the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to pressure. This last discovery is one of the basic gas laws, and today is known as Boyle s Law (see Chapter 9). Boyle applied his work on gases to a study of the atmosphere and determined the density of air, and how atmospheric pressure changes with elevation. 

Gorz, A. (1976) Technology, technicians and the class struggle , in A. Gorz (ed) The Division of Labour The Labour Process and Class-Struggle in Modern Capitalism, Harvester Press, Hassocks Habermas, J. (1971) Technology and science as Ideology , in Toward a Rational Society Student Protest, Science and Politics, trans. J. Shapiro, Heinemann Educational, London Habermas, J. (1977) Hannah Arendt s communications concept of power , Social Research, vol 44, pp2-24... 

Governments realize the importance and power of science and employ the latest scientific tools and methods to carry out their functions. Science and politics have become inseparable because of funding and regulation policies. Moreover, politicians intervene in the practice of science, sometimes diverting science and the interpretation of scientific findings away from where the evidence leads to directions deemed politically desirable. Three chapters in this volume, by William Happer, Henry I. Miller, and Joseph P. Martino describe some such political interventions. 

Robert Nilsson, Science and Politics in the Regulation of Chemicals in Sweden ... 

In many poor African states there is no electricity grid or coverage is very limited, but there are often dispersed locations that could use significant amounts of energy—an aluminum smelter in Mozambique, for example. A nuclear power plant could provide electricity, but South African efforts to introduce a new small-scale technology, the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, which is far safer than previous reactors and can be controlled and shut down remotely, are being hampered by international rejection of older nuclear technologies.12 (See Cohen, this volume, about nuclear power science and politics in the United States.)... 

A lively description of research on aspartate transcarbamoylase, accompanied by delightful tales of science and politics. 

Dessler E.A. and Parson E.A. (2005). The Science and Politics of Climate Change A Guide to the Debate. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 324 pp. 

When in spring 1992 Germar Rudolf sent out the first draft of his Expert Report on the Formation and Detectability of Cyanide Compounds in the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz to a narrow circle of recipients in science and politics, several historians responded with interest. The media, however, received no notice of the existence of the report. Only in spring 1993, when retired Major General Otto Ernst Remer took a later draft of the expert report, provided it with a peppery political preface, and then sent some 1,000 to 2,000 copies to the media, public attorneys, politicians, and scientists, did a certain circle of the Establishment learn of the existence of this report. 

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