#History of Science

Blog / Rejecting the Roots of Racist Research

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 / Manuel Galvan / 1

Science has long been complicit in the perpetuation of racism. Recently, psychologists confronted the fact that racist science is still being published.

Blog / Missing Data: How the Exclusion of Female Subjects from Medical Research Hurts Science

October 24, 2019October 24, 2019 / Abigail Agoglia / 1

In trying to improve human health, research has left out a huge portion of humanity. This bias doesn’t just hurt women, it impedes the progress of medicine.

Blog / When The Empire Strikes Back: A Biography of Cancer and Our Battles Against It

November 9, 2015March 22, 2016 / Tamara Vital /

A couple of years ago, I read what was easily the best work of nonfiction that I had ever read. As I am an avid consumer of nonfiction books and…