"This strategy is so clever and effective," Oreskes said in an interview this week in Paris to promote a French translation of "Merchants of Doubt," a book she co-authored with California Institute of Technology historian Erik Conway. "It takes something which is an essential part of science...
This pithy summary of the meaning of history from historian Jaroslav Pelikan is probably his best known quotation. Its main point—that the resurrection of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago is the single event in the history of the world so important that upon its veracity hangs the meaning ...
Medical science is a realm of complexity and uncertainty, and when it meets the realm of politics, especially as structured in the U.S., where you’re either “blue” or “red,” and where politicians avoid complexity as dangerous to one’s reputation, both realms suffer from the mix, es...
Engineering, and Medicine in providing science and technology policy advice to the US government Peter D Blair1 ABSTRACT For over a century and a half the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have been called upon frequently by federal executive agencies of government and the U...
The fourth suggests it distorts the history of racial issues. (SM)doi:10.1080/13613320120117225S. Maxwell HinesMartin EisenbergJoyce ToneyAlan SingerTaylor & Francis GroupRace Ethnicity & EducationHines, M. (2002). A science educator, a sociologist, a historian, and a social studies educator on ...
During the Cold War, much scientific and technical information passed from West to East (and vice versa) through the hands of scientists and engineers induced to act as spies. Macrakis, a historian of science, provides a window on this c... ...
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If, as historian of science M. Norton Wise hasargued, "to make something visible is to make it real, or to try to," then the question of whether UFOs exist or not largely hinges on debates about representation and authenticity. When it comes to phenomena that may not fit into our frame...
Define Cassiodorous. Cassiodorous synonyms, Cassiodorous pronunciation, Cassiodorous translation, English dictionary definition of Cassiodorous. Flavius Magnus Aurelius Sixth century ad. Roman statesman and historian who wrote Chronicon, a universal hist
Although Marwick suspects some people would accuse a historian of creating job security with the endless views of the past, he insists it is imperative based on the philosophy, science, and new materials of the age. History, according to Marwick, must be for everyone and not remain locked beh...