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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...
In the last few years, a sizeable movement has sprung up which criticizes the technology of the economically advanced countries, and which is trying to develop and build “alternative technologies”. The Magazine General Meeting (the bi-monthly meeting of the Boston Chapter to evaluate the magazine) urged that Science...
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...
What we learn from Vietnam (not only directly from Vietnam, but from the fact of working together for Vietnam) is useful in our everyday political activity, modifies our relation to scientific work, opens a new, critical frame for our past experiences as scientists. It gives us a number of new dimensions in which to...
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...