science and state

"Anthology of curated viewpoints examining the politicized response to the virus in the United States, the rush in the scientific community to understand, treat, and vaccinate, and how science and politics can work together in the future"--Provided by publisher.

"Does science have a place when it comes to making public policy? The answer might not be as simple as . . . people think. Ideally, scientists discover facts, and those facts inform policy. But policy undermines the open-ended nature of scientific inquiry, and scientists end up representing an agenda rather than presenting objective truths to be used to make decisions that impact the public. Through a variety of perspectives, this volume explores who wins and who loses when science and politics mix"--Provided by publisher.

Provides explanations of the science behind issues facing the United States during the early twenty-first century, discussing dirty bombs, energy alternatives, radioactivity, space exploration, and global warming.

No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.

David Schoenbrod shares how his experience as an environmental advocate taught him that allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to create pollution rules in order to avoid environmental crises is a mistake.

Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould explores the complex relationship between science and the humanities.

Bernard Marx, a citizen in a utopian World-State where babies are born in laboratories, there is no violence, all citizens take drugs for depression, and contentment overrides the free will of the populace, embarks on a tragic search for truth after he begins to feel something is missing from life.

Presents a collection of articles that explore the historical relationship between imperialism and the development of science.

Provides an account of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency known as DARPA that is a secretive Pentagon-led agency where military officers and scientists seek ideas for the developing future of technology.