The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 2002 · 901pp · 234,905 words
political belief or a mode of analysis, I had paid little attention to the dynamism of the activist left, and I had never heard of Science for the People. I was not even an intellectual in the European or New York–Cambridge sense.4 As we shall see, the new sciences of human nature
A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings
by Richard Dawkins · 1 Jan 2004 · 460pp · 107,712 words
rush out to show somebody – anybody – the way Medawar’s does, Gould is to be thanked for some memorable lines. No doubt puritan killjoys of Science for ‘The People’ will denounce the vivid and helpful anthropomorphism in ‘Reproduce like hell while you have the ephemeral resource, for it will not last long and some
The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century
by Ronald Bailey · 20 Jul 2015 · 417pp · 109,367 words
needed to endanger the future of mankind,” he warned. Also in 1976, Alfred Vellucci, the mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, guided by the left-leaning group Science for the People, wanted to ban gene-splicing research in his city. Of course, Cambridge is home to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We want
The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
by Steve Stewart-Williams · 12 Sep 2018 · 1,132pp · 156,379 words
, M. (2011). Harnessed: How language and music mimicked nature and transformed ape to man. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books. Chasin, B. (1977). Sociobiology: A sexist synthesis. Science for the People, 9, 27–31. Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (1990). How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species. Chicago, IL: University of
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
by Matthew Cobb · 15 Nov 2022 · 772pp · 150,109 words
became a focus of protest as radical young scientists set up a loose group called Science for the People. One of their main targets was the staid American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – from 1969 to 1971, Science for the People members regularly disrupted AAAS meetings, holding alternative sessions, street theatre events and generally aping some
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of the features of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. As one Science for the People leaflet from 1970 put it, referring to AAAS attendees: ‘They are not here to educate us. We’re here to educate them.’4 For some
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a group of young researchers from Harvard Medical School. They were led by 31-year-old Jon Beckwith, a member of the Boston chapter of Science for the People who had been involved in the 4 March events, and included James Shapiro, at 26 years old a recently minted PhD. Beckwith’s youthful group
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example of liberal claptrap’. There were even occasional interjections of ‘balls’ and ‘bullshit’ from the audience at various points.35 Writing in the US magazine Science for the People, Beckwith later repeated Jim Watson’s suggestion at the meeting that scientists should begin a dialogue to educate the world’s citizens, but followed Watson
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’s words with a classic piece of seventies radical-speak: ‘Right on! Science for the People!’36 Programme of the November 1970 BSSRS meeting on ‘The Social Impact of Modern Biology’. Looking back, it is striking that there was very little
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work on recombinant DNA and felt it would be inappropriate to give lessons to colleagues who did. Instead, he suggested his place be given to Science for the People activist Jon Beckwith, to provide an alternative point of view. Beckwith in turn declined, refusing to play the role of the token critic. No other
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member of Science for the People was considered both appropriate and available, so no radical dissenting voice was heard. Science for the People issued an open letter to the meeting signed by Beckwith and others, but it contained little that would have
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to hold a series of public hearings on Harvard’s proposed laboratory. This decision, which provoked dismay in scientific circles, mobilised both the radical group Science for the People and pro-recombinant DNA academics from Harvard and MIT. The conflict that had been rumbling for years was finally going to burst into the open
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. Flyer produced in June 1976 by Science for the People calling for people to come to a Cambridge City Hall public hearing. The NIH sent Maxine Singer to attend the first Cambridge hearing, giving an
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the experiments or adding a layer of regulation. In the latter respect their proposals were remarkably timid. MIT biologist Jonathan King, a leading member of Science for the People, suggested nothing more radical than monitoring the health of researchers and the effluent of laboratories, appointing technicians to biohazards committees, restricting experimentation to trained researchers
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verdict – although Wald still wanted a national ban on recombinant DNA, he described the CERB report as ‘sober, sophisticated and thoughtful’.30 For their part, Science for the People regretted that the CERB had not broadened its brief to cover more fundamental issues such as ‘the likely specific uses of genetic engineering in class
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against bacteriophage infection, thereby ‘restricting’ the virus. Reverse transcriptase. Enzyme that transcribes an RNA sequence into DNA, as part of the process of reverse transcription. Science for the People. Radical US group primarily active in the 1970s and early 1980s. Also the title of the magazine produced by the group. Both have recently been
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the History of Science 41:567–600. 3 Maher, N. (2017), Apollo in the Age of Aquarius (London, Harvard University Press). 4 All details of Science for the People taken from Moore, K. (2008), Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945–1975 (Princeton, Princeton University Press), pp. 158
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’ and ‘bullshit’ being heard on the tape can be found in a manuscript addition to the letter of 2 December 1970. 36 Beckwith, J. (1971), Science for the People, May 1971, p. 7. 37 Bronowski, J. (1971), in W. Fuller (ed.), The Social Impact of Modern Biology (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul), pp. 233–46
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lead you to a PDF. 50 Pollack’s offering of his place is described in Lear, Recombinant DNA. For more on the attempts to involve Science for the People in Asilomar, see Krimsky, Genetic Alchemy, pp. 110–1. Surprisingly, there is no mention of Asilomar in Beckwith’s memoirs – Beckwith, J. (2002), Making Genes
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, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science (London, Harvard University Press). The Science for the People statement is reproduced in Watson and Tooze, The DNA Story, p. 49. 51 Rogers, M. (1977), Biohazard (New York, Alfred Knopf), p. 68. 52 Rogers
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. 15. 30 The Real Paper, 15 January 1977. Reproduced in Watson and Tooze, The DNA Story, p. 103. 31 Park, B. and Thacher, S. (1977), Science for the People, September–October 1977, pp. 28–35. In 1979 Rae Goodell published a critical account of the Cambridge controversy, highlighting the role of Harvard lobbyists and
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in 1987 here Australian newspaper cartoon from 1976. Photo: https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/2551 here Flyer produced in June 1976 by Science for the People. Photo: Courtesy of the Recombinant DNA History Collection at the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections here The front page of the San Francisco Examiner
Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
by Alan Grafen; Mark Ridley · 1 Jan 2006 · 286pp · 90,530 words
’ science. Sociobiology was nothing but old ideology masquerading as purportedly new science, stated the Sociobiology Study Group, the leading American group of critics associated with Science for the People. This group went as far as challenging the readers of Science to ‘look for themselves’ to find the obvious political messages of sociobiology. In other
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aim was to imagine the worst possible social or moral implications of selected sentences in the book. These then justified their condemnation. While the American Science for the People were quite good at this (with Wilson’s colleagues Gould and Lewontin among the initiators of the fault-finding effort), Dawkins’ particular nemesis was Britain
The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite
by Ann Finkbeiner · 26 Mar 2007
years later his brother was killed…or SESPA: Ibid., 36, 56–57. SESPA’s initial announcement…“and political freedom”: Charles Schwartz, “A Skeletal Archive of Science for the People: Call for the First Meeting,” online at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Eschwrtz/SftP/Contents.html. “Now, within Jason…identified as war criminals”: Charles Schwartz, interview
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
by Maya Dusenbery · 6 Mar 2018 · 504pp · 147,722 words
A Doctor’s Talk with Maiden, Wife, and Mother (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1883), quoted in Rita Arditti, “Women as Objects: Science and Sexual Politics,” Science for the People, September 1974, 9. For a good decade leading up to the twentieth century . . . Ben Barker-Benfield, “The Spermatic Economy: A Nineteenth Century View of Sexuality
A Theory of the Drone
by Gregoire Chamayou · 23 Apr 2013 · 335pp · 82,528 words
experience, was working on schemes to produce armed drones. A number of young scientists engaged in the antiwar movement put out a slender militant review, Science for the People. They were aware of these military research programs and produced the following anticipatory article, warning of the perils involved: After the Air War a new
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, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1972), 229. Epilogue 1. “Toys Against the People, or Remote Warfare,” Science for the People Magazine 5, no. 1 (May 1973): 8–10, 37–42. 2. Ibid., 42. INDEX Note: Page numbers in italics indicate figures. Abbottabad, Pakistan, 141 Abraham
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modulation, 56 Scarry, Elaine, 13 schematization of forms of life, 42 Schmitt, Carl, 61, 165–66, 178, 179, 183 Schörnig, Niklas, 192 science fiction, 213 Science for the People, 223–27 Scout drones, 27–28 scribe-machines, 41 security measures, 35 security state, 178–81 self-deception, 240n14 self-defense, right to, 159–60
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
and put up posters urging people to bring noisemakers to his lectures. Angry manifestos and book-length denunciations were published by organizations with names like Science for the People and The Campaign Against Racism, IQ, and the Class Society. In Not in Our Genes, Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon Kamin dropped innu-endos
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play, a chromosomal marker for homosexuality in some men, the so-called gay gene, was identified by the geneticist Dean Hamer. To the bemusement of Science for the People, this time it is the genetic explanation that is politically correct. Supposedly it refutes right-wingers like Dan Quayle, who had said that homosexuality “is
Artificial Whiteness
by Yarden Katz
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good
by Sarah Williams · 14 Sep 2020