Science must speak truth to power

The Least Must Speak with the Greatest

We extend a propositions-as-types correspondence between linear logic and session types to include recursive sessions. Our extension takes least and greatest fixed points as dual, an idea well-known to theorists, but which has not previously appeared in the treatment of recursive sessions. We preserve the freedom from races, deadlock, and livelock that is a hallmark of the propositions-as-types...

Speaking truth to power?

anyone who has read Hilary Mantel’s magnificent Booker prize-winning novel Wolf Hall will be in no doubt about the fate of government advisers who give their masters the wrong advice. During the reign of England’s tudor king, Henry Viii, refusal to recant your views resulted not only in a swift fall from grace and power, but also a short trip from Westminster to the tower of London. if you were...

Conservation science must engender hope to succeed.

Doctors must speak out over war and humanitarian crises.

Researchers have identified a common pathway in the brain for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, supporting clinical observations of the simultaneous appearance of symptoms of both in some patients. The β amyloid peptides that accumulate in Alzheimer’s disease plaques also increase the build up of the α synuclein protein, which is characteristic of the brains of patients with Parkinso...

Argumentative turn Policy analysis , science and politics : from ‘ speaking truth to power ’ to ‘ making sense together ’

In an historical overview, this paper links to the paradox that the increasing scientification of politics leads to a politicisation of science. For a long time, scientists offered their capabilities as ‘speaking truth to power’. Since the beginning of the 1990s, this input has been transformed into an argumentative policy analysis. This reinvigorates political prudence as ‘making sense together’.