[In my opinion this article deserves a lot more attention than it has received to date. Presented at a plenary session of the American Sociological Association meeting in August 2012, it’s republished here with the permission of the author, Dr. Clive Hamilton. It’s quite sobering, but we are where we are, and five years later, we appear hardly closer...

“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.” -Jonas Salk

Andy Skuce passed away on September 14. Though we only met a handful of times, Andy and I corresponded regularly. I was honoured, recently, to receive a message form him where he said he considered me a friend, though, since it was advance warning that he was dying, it wasn’t a pleasant message to receive. I found Andy uncommonly courageous, honest,...

mt has an article up at And Then There’s Physics arguing that climate science should engage with the red team process and try to make lemonade out of those lemons. Climate disruption is a problem, and there are those who seek to obscure that fact for selfish reasons. So they malign the science, even though the core of it is a triumph that should be...

APOLOGIES FOR FALSE ALARM Many contributors received erroneous emails recently saying their articles had been deleted. This is not the case. The problem originated in an effort to clone the site for other purposes. We understand how this happened, and it actually had very little to do with the P3 site itself.

here Well, I have to admit that it’s still not clear to me how we benefit from one group of researchers studying another, but I don’t think that’s really the issue. The real issue seems to be that STS researchers often seem to infer much more from their research than is reasonable. It may well be interesting to study scientists as a group, but it...