Exit politics, enter politicization

Science, politics, and values: the politicization of professional practice guidelines.

Politicization of Buddhism and Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka*

[Abstract: This study examines the interaction between religion and politics in Sri Lanka. Existing scholarly studies on Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict largely address the ethnic dimension of the conflict. Indeed, in the understanding of Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war, which has left 70,000 dead and displaced nearly a half-million people at its height generally, religion is rarely identified as hav...

Against politicization of science

Even though having some credibility in trans-disciplinary research (see e.g., Stehr and von Storch 1995, Bray and von Storch 1999, von Storch 2009, Bray and von Storch 2009 or Stehr and von Storch 2010), we may not have fully grasped the conceptions and arguments of S. Keller. What stuck to us was the complaint that the IPCC, mainly under the influence of Bert Bolin, would have failed to issue ...

In with the new and out with the old: enter multivariate wavelet decomposition, exit transfer function.

Aaron A. Phillips, Alex Hansen, and Andrei V. Krassioukov Centre for Heart, Lung and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British ColumbiaOkanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada; International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Department of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Univ...

Exit the frog, enter the human: physiology and experimental psychology in nineteenth-century astronomy

This paper deals with one of the first attempts to measure simple reactions in humans. The Swiss astronomer Adolph Hirsch investigated personal differences in the speed of sensory transmission in order to achieve accuracy in astronomy. His controversial results, however, started an intense debate among both physiologists and astronomers who disagreed on the nature of these differences. Were the...