Science and Technology Studies - What's Science For?

Science and technology studies is not just about explaining scientific methodologies or formulas. It asks much bigger questions like, what should science do? How is it organ who does it serve? I've read a fair amount of this work, and it's made me look at science in a new way. If you read about the history of science, you'll read of eugenics, of scientific racism. You'll read of medical experiments on prisoners, slaves and inginous communities. These are big science projects fuelled by big government money. This all worked out pretty well for scientists until the cold war ended. And this is where the problem starts. The us doesn't need big science to battle the so

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