Creative Disturbance

The Political Value of Science and the Scientific Value of Politics

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In this podcast, Poe Johnson interviews Eric Martin, an Assistant Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, on the relationship between science and politics, particularly as it relates to Dr. Martin's work on George Lakoff and Steven Pinker and the concept of scientism. Additionally, Eric Martin traces the trajectory of the way that scientific values have been used for political purposes in the formation and treatment of marginalized bodies.