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Science



  • The Feminist Past History Can't Give Us

    by Paula Findlen

    "What it really meant to be a woman of science three centuries ago is not so easily conscripted into contemporary narratives of feminist liberation."



  • What Attacks on Science Get Wrong

    by Andrew Jewett

    Reductive diagnoses of a "war on science" ignore the specific political and cultural stakes of controversies around vaccination, climate, or creationism. 



  • How Americans Came to Distrust Science

    by Andrew Jewett

    Scientists and their supporters cannot overcome the current moment of hostility toward their profession and rejection of their expertise unless they confront the cultural history of skepticism toward science, in both conservative and liberal forms. 



  • How the Little Ice Age Changed History

    Starting in the fourteenth century, cooling temperatures disrupted our economic and social structures—and may have given rise to the modern world.