Tuesday, February 2, 2016

What is "social contruction"? Well, take the Iowa caucuses

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We often struggle to teach our students what "social construction" actually means.  (For the record, I am with Woolgar and Latour...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

On the question of trusting experts

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Over the years, journalist Chris Mooney has made a name for himself as a chronicler of what he has called The Republican War on Science : t...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

New blog-posts around the web: Crowdsourcing and Alan Turing

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This blog has been quiet for a while but I had two posts at the CASTAC blog in the past two months. The first one, titled Crowdsourcing t...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Speed-bump, meet Knee Defender

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I wrote up a post for the CASTAC blog suggesting that the recent debates about airline seat space (do we have a right to recline?  do we h...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Science vs. Politics: A pragmatic argument for why this distinction doesn't work

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[X-posted on the HASTS blog .] Recently, I talked to a doctor and public health professional about the relationship between science ...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Recent blog-posts around the Web

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In the past few months, I've been blogging at multiple places and as a result, have completely neglected this blog.  In the future, whe...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Big Data, Boundary Work and Computer Science

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A Google Data Center. Image taken from here . The Annual Meeting of the Society of the Social Studies of Science this year (i.e. 4S 20...