Biology As Ideology

<p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Lewontin writes in this collection of essays which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: Scientists do not begin life as scientists after all but as social beings immersed in a family a state a productive structure and they view nature through a lens that has been molded by their social experience... . Science like the Church before it is a supremely social institution reflecting and reinforcing the dominant values and vices of society at each historical epoch.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Biology as Ideology</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> Lewontin examines the false paths down which modern scientific ideology has led us. By admitting science's limitations he helps us rediscover the richness of nature -- and appreciate the real value of science.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Renowned geneticist R. C. Lewontin argues that science is a social institution and only by admitting its limitations we can appreciate its real value.</span></p>