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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. Reason on the Ropes

Author : Carlos Elías

Published in: Science on the Ropes

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Scientific American is the oldest continuously published monthly in the United States (it became monthly only in 1921), with 171 years of history. It includes among its authors the most important American scientists (including Albert Einstein). The October 2017 issue included a monograph with a provocative title, ‘Reason on the Ropes’. The issue analysed in just 10 pages how Western science was going into decline and, by contrast, how China was becoming stronger and stronger. The periodical highlighted two political tragedies—the election of Donald Trump and Brexit—that threaten science in the two most important research countries of the West: the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Footnotes
1
Mauricio Schwarz. (2017). The left Feng-Shui. When science and reason ceased to be progress. Barcelona: Ariel.
 
2
Oscar Varsavsky. (1969). Ciencia, política y cientificismo. [Science, politics and scientism]. Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina. A complementary view can also be read in Varsavsky, Óscar (1972). Towards a national scientific policy. Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina.
 
3
Gustavo Romero. (2017). ‘Confesiones de un maldito cientificista.’ In Gabriel Andrade (ed.), Mario Bunge. Elogio del cientificismo. Pamplona: Laetoli.
 
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Alfredo Serrano. (2014). El pensamiento económico de Hugo Chávez. Mataró: Intervención Cultural.
 
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Linda Wang. (2017). ‘U.S. team makes history at International Chemistry Olympiad’. Chemical & Engineering News (24 July 2017), 95(30), Available at: https://​cen.​acs.​org/​content/​cen/​articles/​95/​i30/​US-team-makes-history-International.​html.
 
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Lauren Robinson-Brown. (2005). ‘Ending affirmative action would devastate most minority college enrollment.’ Princeton University. Available at: https://​www.​princeton.​edu/​news/​2005/​06/​06/​ending-affirmative-action-would-devastate-most-minority-college-enrollment?​section=​newsreleases.
 
12
Lee Billings. (2017). ‘China’s moment.’ Scientific American, October, p. 73.
 
13
He has not published the research in any journal and did not share any evidence or data that definitively proved he had done it at the end of 2018.
 
14
‘Chinese Scientist Claims to Use Crispr to Make First Genetically Edited Babies’. The New York Times. Nov. 26, 2018. https://​www.​nytimes.​com/​2018/​11/​26/​health/​gene-editing-babies-china.​html.
 
15
‘Chinese Scientist Claims to Use Crispr to Make First Genetically Edited Babies’. The New York Times. Nov. 26, 2018. https://​www.​nytimes.​com/​2018/​11/​26/​health/​gene-editing-babies-china.​html.
 
Metadata
Title
Reason on the Ropes
Author
Carlos Elías
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Science on the Ropes

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-12977-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-12978-1

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12978-1_4

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