Benedikt Fecher (DIW Berlin) and Sascha Friesike (Humboldt Institute): Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought. Peter Hartl (St Andrews): Michael Polanyi on Freedom of Science. Rodney Shackelford on Trofim Lysenko, Soviet ideology, and pseudo-science. From Logos, what is science and why should we care? Alan Sokal investigates; Michael Ruse on democracy and pseudo-science; Margaret C. Jacob on Left, Right and science: Relativists and materialists; Barbara Forrest on rejecting the Founders’ legacy: Democracy as a weapon against science; and Lawrence Davidson on fundamentalist Christians, science, and democracy. When science and religion don't mix: Steve Jones’s attempt to ground the Bible in the physical world has not been universally popular among believers. Can science replace religion in our lives? Nigel Biggar wonders. Sean Carroll on how science and religion can’t be reconciled. Joel Primack on what cosmology can teach us about morality.
