R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an o

Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For example, biology ha

Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.

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Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choo