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Tragedy of American Science: From the Cold War to the Forever Wars Haymarket PB
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Publisher
Haymarket Books
ISBN-10
1642597082
ISBN-13
9781642597080
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24057279496
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tragedy of American Science : from the Cold War to the Forever Wars
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / United States, History
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Science, History
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Trade Paperback
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0.9 in
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16.9 Oz
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8.5 in
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5.5 in
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Table Of Content
Foreword Table of Contents Epigraph Introduction PART 1: THE CORPORATIZATION OF AMERICAN SCIENCE 1 The Big Fat Lie 2 The Green Revolution 3 From Green Revolution to Gene Revolution 4 The Tobacco Strategy 5 Fraudulent Pharma 6 Spitting in the Well We Drink From 7 Atoms for Peace? 8 The Academic-Industrial Complex 9 Think Tanks and the Betrayal of Reason 10 The Dismal Science is Certainly Dismal, but is it Science? PART 2: THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICAN SCIENCE 11 Science Harnessed to the Chariot of Destruction 12 A-Bombs and H-Bombs 13 Non-nuclear Technologies of Death 14 Bombers, Missiles, and Antimissiles 15 Video-Game War 16 Lethal Autonomy 17 Is Cyberwarfare Really a Thing? 18 American Exceptionalism and the Ultimate Perversion of the Behavioral Sciences PART 3: HOW WE GOT INTO THIS MESS... 19 The Explosive Birth of Big Science 20 Operation Paperclip: The Nazification of American Science 21 The RAND Corporation: From "Fuck You, Buddy" to Doomsday PART 4: ...AND THE ONLY WAY OUT 22 Is a Science-For-Human-Needs Possible? Acknowledgements Suggestions for Further Reading Notes
Synopsis
A compelling and timely account of the corruption, corporatization, and militarization of science in the United States., The tragedy of American science is that its direction is determined by private profit rather than by the desire to improve the human condition. As a result, Conner argues, Big Science has been irredeemably corrupted by Big Money. This corruption threatens the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the medicines we take. The Tragedy of American Science explores how the U.S. economy's addiction to military spending distorts and deforms science by making it overwhelmingly subservient to military interests. The primary motive driving American science and technology has become the search for new and more efficient ways to kill people. This transforms science from the classic ideal of a creative force for the advancement of humankind into its destructive and antihuman opposite. That those trillions of dollars in resources and scientific talent are not devoted to solving the problems of poverty, disease, and environmental destruction is one of the greatest tragedies of our times. While the underlying problems may appear intractable, Conner compellingly argues that replacing the current science-for-profit system with a science-for-human-needs system is not an impossible, utopian dream. But to get there, we'll need to grapple with this important history., The tragedy of American science is that its direction is determined by private profit rather than by the desire to improve the human condition. As a result, Conner argues, Big Science has been irredeemably corrupted by Big Money. This corruption threatens the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the medicines we take. explores how the U.S. economy's addiction to military spending distorts and deforms science by making it overwhelmingly subservient to military interests. The primary motive driving American science and technology has become the search for new and more efficient ways to kill people. This transforms science from the classic ideal of a creative force for the advancement of humankind into its destructive and antihuman opposite. That those trillions of dollars in resources and scientific talent are not devoted to solving the problems of poverty, disease, and environmental destruction is one of the greatest tragedies of our times. While the underlying problems may appear intractable, Conner compellingly argues that replacing the current science-for-profit system with a science-for-human-needs system is not an impossible, utopian dream. But to get there, we'll need to grapple with this important history.
LC Classification Number
QA180.U6
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