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Science, Scientists, and the Third World

Three years ago a few members of the American Physical Society startled their colleagues by wearing a lapel button which read "Science for the People". The reaction of some older established members was: "What do you mean- the people? Am I not the people too?" The question that I want to examine is how science relates...

Why I Resigned from the National Academy of Sciences

Thus, the activities of the N.A.S.-N.R.C. are the classic example of the artificial separation of technology from politics that is the unshakeable principle of academic science. Moreover, the falseness of this doctrine is nowhere more patent than in the activities of the N.A.S.-N.R.C. The N.R.C. has, among its...

200 Scientists and Engineers Descend Upon Washington

People who go to Washington to speak up against the war? Of course they are all unwashed long-haired hippie freaks and student types who are so affluent that they cross state lines to make panty raids. Well, on June 4, over 200 of them from N. Y. and N. J. donned short-haired wigs, the dignified looks of the over...