Number 49 ~ Spring/Summer 2016
Special Section: The Integrity of Science
Editor’s Note
Introducing our special section on “The Integrity of Science”
Saving Science
Science isn’t self-correcting, it’s self-destructing. To save the enterprise, scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world.
Daniel Sarewitz
Two Cheers for the Retraction Boom
Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus praise the growing scrutiny of scientific publications
A Different Kind of Scientific Revolution
Barbara A. Spellman on the role of technological and demographic changes
Essays
Getting Over ‘Apolloism’
Rand Simberg on why the 1960s missions to the Moon are a bad template for today’s space program
Is There an ‘Unmet Need’ for Family Planning?
Rebecca Oas dismantles the concept behind efforts to increase global contraceptive use
European and American Views on Genetically Modified Foods
Orsolya Ujj on the cultural and philosophical differences that explain contrasting beliefs and policies on GMOs
Fiction in the Age of Screens
Erik P. Hoel on how today’s novelists cope with their HBO anxiety
Scientist, Scholar, Soul
Marc D. Guerra on Margaret Edson’s play Wit and the temptation to hide from matters of ultimate meaning
