Criticizing Science by Myrna Perez HARDBACK 9781421450155

Johns Hopkins University Press

Criticizing ScienceStephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy\nAuthor(s): Myrna Perez\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9781421450155, 978-1421450155\nSynopsis\nHow Stephen Jay Gould's career illustrates that criticizing science is important for American democracy.\n\nThe question of public trust in science feels newly urgent, but today is not the first time that opposing ends of the American political spectrum have critiqued modern science. This dynamic has historical roots in the early 1970s, when critiques of science emerged simultaneously out of Civil Rights, feminist, and decolonization movements on the left, as well as within the creationism of the Christian Right. \n\nIn Criticizing Science, Myrna Perez follows the public career of evolutionary biologist, political leftist, and anti-creationist Stephen Jay Gould during the final decades of the American twentieth century..