Scientism and Anti-Scientism: Why Science and Society Don’t Understand Each Other
Whether the issue is genetically modified organisms, stem cells, or end-of-life situations, public debate appears to be constricted within a consolidated pattern. On the one hand there are the advocates of the unbridled development of technoscience; on the other those who call for restraints on science’s encroachment into fields that have traditionally been the prerogatives…