Magazine
July-August 2021
July-August 2021
Volume: 109 Number: 4
Scientific advances have led to vast improvements in daily life—from computers to vaccines to clean energy. But science itself is a work in progress and still has a lot of potential to be more equitable, ethical, and responsive to the needs of different communities. (Cover illustration by Clare Nicolas.)
In This Issue
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Communications
- Engineering
- Environment
- Ethics
- Medicine
- Physics
- Policy
- Sociology
- Technology
The Trust Fallacy
Nicole M Krause, Dietram A. Scheufele, Isabelle Freiling, Dominique Brossard
Communications Medicine
Scientists' search for public pathologies is unhealthy, unhelpful, and ultimately unscientific.
Treat Human Subjects with More Humanity
David Resnik
Ethics Medicine
Buy-in to medical research requires that participating communities benefit from the data collected, and can trust how their data will be used.
Who Should Speak for the Earth?
Jack W Traphagan
Anthropology Astronomy Ethics
Extraterrestrial communication forces us to confront cultural assumptions.
