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Philosophy, sociology and religion

Philosophy, sociology and religion

Of minds and marches

08 Jun 2017 Robert P Crease
Taken from the June 2017 issue of Physics World

Robert P Crease reveals his ambivalence about the recent marches for science – and why he went on one in the end

Photograph of a dog next to a sign saying “To deny science is to embrace ignorance” at a science march at Stony Brook University in April 2017
Poster protest: slogan on show during the science march at Stony Brook University in April. (Courtesy: Jenn Solomon)
I didn’t expect so many dogs. On 22 April I and a few hundred other people spent two hours slowly

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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