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Scientific blinders: Learning from the moral failings of Nazi physicists
By Talia Weiss, July 3, 2019 Scientists and engineers who contribute to nuclear modernization programs today, or who engage in other defense-related research, may feel they have little in common with physicists working in service [Ler mais]
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War and Peace
An Overview of Arm’s Treaties, Emergent Technologies and Citizen’s Activism
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“INSECT ALLIES”
A new bioweapon system?
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Women and Science
World Federation of Scientific Workers Launch of a renewed reflection about “women and science” “In the Dakar General Assembly, we noticed two contradictory facts: on the one hand, there were numerous women, in [Ler mais]
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RESOURCE EXHAUSTION AND GREED
Paul Craig Roberts Is Capitalism Killing Us? Ecological economists, such as Herman E. Daly, stress that as the external costs of pollution and resource exhaustion are not included in Gross Domestic Product, we do not [Ler mais]
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BRAZIL: Aggressions and restrictions on freedom in university campuses
Solidarity and Denunciation The WFSW takes a stand and calls on affiliated organizations to react We received from the World Federation of Scientific Workers, to which OTC is affiliated, news of worrying situations and [Ler mais]
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LETHAL AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS PLEDGE
LETHAL AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS PLEDGE Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to play an increasing role in military systems. There is an urgent opportunity and necessity for citizens, policymakers, and leaders to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable [Ler mais]
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Precariousness in Scientific Research
An Obstacle to Scientific and Human Progress Call for a worldwide campaign and a World Day in 2019 Many organizations of scientists in the world are mobilizing against the increase in precariousness and the decline in [Ler mais]
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APPEAL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL MOBILISATION
To Higher Education and Research To scientific and human progress Facing neoliberal globalisation attacks, an engaged university community Within days of his inauguration, Donald Trump announced his intention to exert control over federally funded [Ler mais]