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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
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The article was published on 1994-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 718 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Science wars & Intellectual freedom.read more
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Thinking about Science and Christian Orthodox Beliefs: A Survey Study of Teacher Beliefs.
TL;DR: The authors examined whether anti-science sentiment associated with increasing orthodox Christian belief was associated with increased support for science and found that those with strong Christian beliefs were just as supportive of science as those with no Christian beliefs.
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Why Anti-Realist Views Persist in Communication Research : A Political Economic Reflection on Relativism's Prominence
TL;DR: The authors argue that the acceptance of anti-realist views is related to communication theorists' general hostility toward radical political economic critiques of media institutions and coverage, and propose that such denials of reality go largely unchallenged in communication research.
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Making Science, Making Scientists, Making Science Fiction: On the Co-Creation of Science and Science Fiction in the Social Imaginary
TL;DR: The authors argue that science fiction can be seen as a form of didactic literature which offers moral exempla to scientists or potential scientist readers, which can help readers to imagine what it might mean to be a scientist, and to engage in science as a profession.
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Figuring Myself Out: Certainty, Injury, and the Poststructuralist Repositioning of Bodies of Identity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a self-study about uncertainty and their attempts to redeem a clear definition, to be named a peer and a colleague among artists, writers, and teachers.
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The Making of Green Knowledge: Social movements and knowledge-making
TL;DR: In the process of winning influence and organizational strength the messages that are being projected and the activities that were being carried out have been transformed in subtle ways as discussed by the authors, and the environmental movement has been reduced primarily to the machinations of large, non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund.