AEEC Article Nomination
The article that we are nominating that we feel should be read this week is The Privacy Delusions Of Genetic Testing, by Peter Pitts, a former commissioner at the FDA. This article brings up the ethical issues related to genetic tests, and how knowledge of what’s in your DNA could cause problems in the future. Link To Article: The… Read more AEEC Article Nomination
BIFSTOU Article Nomination
The Boring and Exciting World of Biometrics We believe that this article would be a great addition to this weeks discussions, because it connects to the majority of our discussion from class today (9/17/18). The author goes through the entire line of thinking that occurs when talking about biometrics, starting with a wonderment at how… Read more BIFSTOU Article Nomination
(ACHSRE) Article Nomination
Our nomination is FBI Wish List: An App That Can Recognize the Meaning of Your Tattoos by Dave Maass. This article relates to our class discussion of how biometric technology can be used to profile people for subjective reasons. The article describes how biometric technology can be used to not only identify criminals by their… Read more (ACHSRE) Article Nomination
(SAFTB) Article Nomination
Our article is “Facial-Recognition Software Might Have a Racial Bias Problem” by Clare Garvie and Johnathan Frankle. This article is similar to those in classes and focuses on the idea of Facial Identification and possible biases/inaccuracies which were unintentionally created in the program during the development process. Below is the link to the article. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/the-underlying-bias-of-facial-recognition-systems/476991/
EGMOSAM Article Nomination
The article we are nominating is We All Lose in the Biometrics Arms Race by Nathaniel Mott. It is an article that discusses replacing passwords with biometrics, like fingerprint scanning. We think this is a good addition to the week because it is a similar issue to the Face ID reading, which everyone in the class… Read more EGMOSAM Article Nomination
A public debate over race and genetics
David Reich’s article in the New York Times (March 23, 2018) An open letter produced by a group of 67 scientists and researchers in response to David Reich’s article and book (March 30, 2018)
The Philosophy of an Atheist; Truth, Democracy, and Humanity
In severa, discussions of the production and impacts of scientific knowledge, we almost always mention democracy. We claim that we need to make the development of scientific knowledge more democratic, we claim that a democratic system works for the spread of ideas. Why do we claim this? Is there any reason for saying that knowledge… Read more The Philosophy of an Atheist; Truth, Democracy, and Humanity
More on Technology, Politics, and the Cold War
Following this week conversation on the politics of science and technology. Here two additional materials about the Cybersyn Project and Chile’s Cybernetic Revolution in the early 1970s. Eden Medina’s Book: Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile And this podcast on Cybersyn Project: 230 – Project Cybersyn – 99% Invisible
Truth from Science
This video, entitled “A scientific approach to the paranormal” touches upon science and truth, an idea that has been discussed heavily. It focuses on what we believe, the nature of science, and the “inner and outer truth” as Carrie Poppy describes them. I thought it was an interesting approach to some of the STS ideas.