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Science Doesn't Work That Way

Its authority derives not from unbiased experts but from the institutions and norms that structure their work.

Gregory E. Kaebnick

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Science & Nature

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

The Forbidden Experiment

What can we learn from the wild child?

Rebecca Saxe

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

What Mind–Body Problem?

Understanding consciousness may be easier than we thought.

Alex Byrne

Politics, Science & Nature

Getting Covered

Choose a plan everyone can agree on.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Victor R. Fuchs

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

The Common Interest

Is it time for national health insurance?

John Geyman

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Knowing Our Minds

Why some philosophers say we can’t.

Alex Byrne

Science & Nature

The Primary Solution

Put doctors where they count.

Barbara Starfield

Politics, Science & Nature

Race for a Cure

Our health-care system is failing. What will save it?

Jill Quadagno

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Do the Right Thing

Cognitive science’s search for a common morality.

Rebecca Saxe

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

What We Know

On the universals of language and rights.

Noam Chomsky

Science & Nature

No Peace, No War

With world attention now focused on the tsunami and its devastating effects, the story of the Bindunuwewa massacre is easy to forget.

Alan Keenan

Science & Nature, War & Security

Creator and Destroyer

A rivalry to end the world.

Vivian Gornick

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

Hungry for Air

Learning the language of torture.

Deborah Stone

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