In a bizarre struggle, little known outside of New York City, the N.Y.C. Transit Authority (T.A.) is waging war against the kids. It all began in the late sixties when dilapidated subway cars, in service for thirty-five years and more, began to get elaborate midnight paint jobs signed with names like "Jose" and "Mo."...
Archive - November 2021
Intense concern over rapid rates of world population growth burst into the mass media and public consciousness in the late 1960's with the publication of Ehrlich's The Population Bomb and the Meadows' Limits to Growth. The impact of these studies upon the public lay in their bold assertiveness and attractive...
The drug industry works hard to contact and influence students throughout their medical education. In the classroom, drug companies reach students by providing films, slides, speakers, research grants, and even pharmacology teachers. Drug advertising dominates the pages and budgets of medical journals. From the time...
This article was stimulated by a radio program script by AI Huebner, California. Thanks are extended to Margaret Studier and Marjorie Elias for suggestions.
This essay is reproduced here as it appeared in the print edition of the original Science for the People magazine. These web-formatted archives are preserved complete with typographical errors and available for reference and educational and activist use. Scanned PDFs of the back issues can be browsed by headline at...
The potentially disastrous effects of gene implantation research on the health of people in local communities have aroused concern in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Cambridge City Council met in front of overflow audiences for two open hearings on June 23 and July 7 to discuss the ramifications of gene implantation...
What motivates scientists to do tedious experiments, chemical dishwashing, mathematical manipulations that often lead nowhere? An aura of intellectual romance shrouds the scientific world. It hides scientists’ daily routines from public view, and mystifies the reasons they choose the work they do. For most people, the...
The article “Nuclear Power: Who Needs It?,” which appeared in the May 1976 issue of Science for the People, was a reprint of a pamphlet prepared by a San Francisco Bay Area project group, many of whom are members of the Berkeley Science for the People chapter. The pamphlet was prepared in support of proposition 15...
Three cancer researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), Seattle, Washington, have lost their appointments at the culmination of a three-year fight with the administration of that Center. Their struggle exposes some of the basic flaws in the “war on cancer,” which currently spends about three...
This short article appeared in a packet put together by the Political Economy Program Center of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. We are reprinting it here as a way of opening up this important area, and stimulating related articles for future issues. The bibliography section is not meant to be...