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Why Does the Web Seem to Bring Out the Best in Science but the Worst in Politics?
Author(s) -
Speijer Dave
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.201900134
Subject(s) - decipher , reading (process) , ideology , computer science , statement (logic) , politics , ribosome , chemistry , cognitive science , epistemology , rna , philosophy , bioinformatics , biology , gene , linguistics , political science , biochemistry , psychology , law
Reading Venki Ramakrishnan's “Gene Machine”, describing the race to decipher the structure of the ribosome, inspired thoughts on the power of the internet: mostly for good in science, but often detrimental to society. Why is this so? The non‐ideological nature of science holds part of the answer.