Thu 12, July 2007 @ 22:45
Sat 02, September 2006 @ 18:47
GM foods: giant agribusiness companies put profits first
The recent debates over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and the use of GM crops are the latest round in a long battle, writes Jack Tully. These questions go to the heart not only of our diet and the role of scientific research and its exploitation by industry, but also to the very meaning of what it is to be human and the reasons for our species' astonishing success.
Thu 24, August 2006 @ 22:57
Taking sides in the science wars
The class struggle is, as well as strikes and protests, a battle of ideas. And a battle is currently raging between post-modernist "radicals" and scientific defenders of the status quo. Jack Tully makes sense of the science wars that have gripped the USA, and argues that socialists must be at the forefront of a critical defence of scienceThu 24, August 2006 @ 22:47
Nature as Marx intended
[a review of Lifelines: Biology, Freedom and Determinism by Steven Rose]
Dialectical materialism may have been the method used by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky to understand how the world works and how to change it, but it has a bad name among scientists, and understandably so.
