The popular view, maintained even today, is that the university is a haven for the unproductive—a dream world. But, in fact, the university plays quite an active role in our national life. To put it bluntly, the intellectual work that goes on at the university level is for the most part the work that is required to...
Archive - February 2022
The last six months have seen a considerable heightening of political struggle in Britain—a struggle which deeply involves issues of concern to the radical science movement. Two areas in particular may be of special interest to SftP.
An admitted purpose of U.S. aid to underdeveloped countries is to protect North American economic and political interests.
Seabrook, NH will again be the stage for massive nonviolent civil disobedience to protest nuclear power. The Clamshell Alliance, a New England-based organization of 53 local groups, is planning an "occupation/restoration" of the nuclear plant construction site on June 24. The call has gone out nationally and...
For years the Ann Arbor Science for the People Science Teaching Group primarily held intellectual discussions of how science teaching has perpetuated the elitist and oppressive role of science. Science teaching, we felt, has been instrumental in reinforcing the popular notion that science is politically neutral and...
We're a group of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered nurses (RNs) who have been meeting for over two years to discuss conditions and working relationships in several hospitals in the Boston area. One thing we felt it was important to talk about was the issue of "professionalism", which has continued to...
In this issue we are printing two articles that focus on women and health care, one about professionalization of nurses and one about lesbian health issues. Both of these articles raise questions concerning the control of the quality and direction of health care in the US. How much control do workers and patients have...
Lesbians face great discrimination when seeking health care. Although this discrimination can be found in all health-related areas, it is probably most predominant in the areas of gynecology, reproduction and mental health. Most doctors view women in terms of reproduction and assume that all of us either use or need...
The Boston Chapter Science Teaching Group has been working since 1971 to expose the social and political content of science in both secondary school and college classrooms. Over the years we have: prepared critiques of existing curricular materials; developed some of our own classroom materials (e.g., "Genetic...
The stability of capitalism in the US depends a lot on the fact that many of our society's most serious problems are exported abroad. Labor unrest can be minimized by setting up unskilled labor industries in countries where wages are cheap and laws repressive. Pollution problems are postponed by building supersized...