Science, Politics, and Forensics

Politics and science: reproductive health.

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Science and Politics: Global Warming and Eugenics

century exceeds natural variability, and thus some of it may be due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide (Stevens, “Experts confirm human role in global warming,” New York Times, Sept. 10, 1995, page 1). This weak claim, unfortunately, is based on the assumption that variability in models is the same as variability in nature. This is not widely believed. Although the scientific statement of this pro...

Advancing the Science of Digital Forensics

0018-9162/12/$31.00 © 2012 IEEE Published by the IEEE Computer Society DECEMBER 2012 25 rough equivalent of today’s file allocation table (FAT) or $Bitmap. A consultant systems programmer came in to show us how to recover the files by reconstructing the VTOC based upon the prior morning’s routine printout of the hard drive contents (yes, we made such a printout every day or two). Since we could...

STS as science or politics?

In a recent editorial for this journal, Sergio Sismondo makes two claims. First, he states that STS bears no responsibility for the emergence of post-truth politics. Second, he claims that debates about the nature of expertise that take place within STS are irrelevant in this context. In contrast, we argue that, whether or not STS had a causal influence on the emergence of post-truth politics, ...