Science, politics and drugs on my mind
Today I’m putting up short series of posts that have been prompted by the sacking of Professor David Nutt by the Home Secretary Alan Johnson. What was that all about? I’m supposed to be an expert on...
View ArticleWhy stupid lazy politicians like science
This is a delayed response to the Home Secretary’s sacking of Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. The boundaries between science and politics used to be a...
View ArticleWhat is science? And what is science taken to be?
What distinguishes science from other kinds of knowledge? Where does a scientist's authority and responsibility begin and end? Where do the boundaries between science and politics lie? These seem like...
View ArticleThe public relations definition of science
In The boundaries of science post I argued that science connects with other fields such as politics or the military through issues or institutions that reside between both science and the adjacent...
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