Science wars revisited

People's Science Movements and Science Wars?

Fish-Wars Revisited: A Stochastic Incomplete-Information Harvesting Game

This study employs a spatially distributed stochastic extension of the classical “fishwar” harvesting game. The model addresses the bioeconomic impact of exploiting a trans-boundary fish stock in a stochastic marine environment subject to natural fluctuations and long-term regime changes. Our goal is to study the evolution of the fishery, either with cooperative or non-cooperative harvesting, w...

A Report from the Front of the Science Wars

1132 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 43, NUMBER 10 The OAMSRPDAAAS (Official AMS Representative to the Physics Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science) was trying to look wise at a meeting in Baltimore last February, while silently wondering whether his was the absolutely most obscure bureaucratic position in North America academia. He was diverted from this relatively eng...

Fish Wars: Science Is Shaping a New Peace Agenda

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The End of Science Revisited

The End of Science Revisited O ne of my most memorable moments as a science journalist occurred in December 1996, when I attended the Nobel Prize festivities in Stockholm. During the white-tie banquet for 1,500 presided over by Sweden's King and Queen, several prizewinners stood to give brief speeches. David Lee of Cor-nell University, a winner in physics, decried the " doomsayers " who were cl...