Category Archives: Science

Trump Vs Big Science

Posted on September 1, 2025 by Luke Ford

Heather Mac Donald writes: The claim that the Trump administration might push the NSF [National Science Foundation] to fund research with an “ideological bent” was rich. The NSF has been supporting ideologically driven research for years, much of it through … Continue reading →

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Our System Often Rewards BS Rather Than Truth

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Luke Ford

Columbia University statistics professor Andrew Gelman blogs (here is my collection of his related posts): Last year we discussed the problem of scientists who host podcasts in which they credulously and uncritically interview celebrity scientists who are promoting junk science. … Continue reading →

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L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science by Stephen P. Turner & Lawrence Nichols

Posted on August 24, 2025 by Luke Ford

ChatGPT gave me the highlights of this recent essay: Turner and Nichols’s piece on L. J. Henderson is juicy for your project. It cuts right to the themes we’ve been tracking about expertise, authority, and the social construction of “what … Continue reading →

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Expertise in Complex Organizations

Posted on December 25, 2023 by Luke Ford

Stephen Turner writes in the 2023 book, The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics: Science is sometimes thought to be a self – correcting system: replication and the fact that other scientists must rely on the previous and related … Continue reading →

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Where is the future made?

Posted on October 10, 2021 by Luke Ford
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