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Caption: Exploding the Gene Myth by Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald. Published by Beacon Press, 1999

This piece belongs to the series "How to Think About Science"

Produced by David Cayley

Other pieces by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Summary: HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Nineteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Clips include: Ruth Hubbard, Harvard's first tenured female professor biology, and one of the first women to raise the question of male bias in science.
 

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Posted on May 02, 2011 at 06:36 PM | Permalink

Sociology of Science

Ruth Hubbard brings to light the importance of the role society and culture play in science. This is a very important aspect of science that most people (including scientists) don't think about very critically. Science does not objectively learn about the world and the way it works. Rather, the things scientists study and the way this information is used depends on the political and economical agenda of those who possess the knowledge.