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Postings from the interface of science and culture

Friday, September 15, 2023

The new Climategate that wasn't

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  Climate-change denialists got all excited last week by an alleged revelation that the top science journals are bullying ...
Monday, September 04, 2023

Should we colonise space? How not to debate that question.

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Software engineer, astrophysicist and human spaceflight enthusiast Peter Hague has commented on Twitter about my Guardian “Big Idea” piece ...
Sunday, August 07, 2022

The Spectator's review of The Book of Minds: a response

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  There is a review of The Book of Minds in The Spectator by philosopher Jane O’Grady. I have some thoughts about it. ...
Saturday, June 04, 2022

What do we mean when we say that science is political?

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In commenting on the commonly voiced view that “science is political”, Stuart Ritchie makes an excellent point: we must ask “And then what?...
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Philip Ball
I am a London-based writer, and the author of several books on aspects of science and its interactions with other aspects of culture. My latest book is The Modern Myths (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
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