Among the writers of science for the general public, some, like Carl Sagan, could compose beautiful, resonant prose that conveyed the wonder and majesty of the cosmos. Others, like Stephen Jay Gould,...
I offer an introduction to some of the main writings and debates in the anthology The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology, edited by Keith M. Parsons (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Bo...
Stephen Jay Gould's 1981 book The Mismeasure of Man is both amusing and horrifying when it recounts how nineteenth century anthropologists pursued craniometry