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The priesthood of industrial society
A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 2 No. 10, October 1972. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. According to the...
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The test tube fixation
A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 5 No. 1, January 1975. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. Scientists accept at...
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Genetic engineering
A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 28 No. 3, January–February 1979, by The Editors. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the...
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Superscience: its mythology and legitimisation
A new breed of scientist sees no contradiction between ‘solving’ our present ecological crisis and calling for the development of such superstar technologies as fusion and genetic engineering. But,...
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Questioning scientific progress
Review of The Double-Edged Helix: Science and the Real World, Liebe F Cavalieri, Columbia University Press, New York, 1981 This book is part of the ‘Convergence’ series, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen....
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Evolution, neo-Darwinism and the paradigm of science
Neo-Darwinism does not provide a satisfactory explanation for evolution and however resilient it may prove to criticism, it must eventually give way to a more realistic theory. This can only occur if...
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Returning to an ecological Way
Edward Goldsmith speaks at the Friends Of The Centre Annual Conference, 31 October 1992. The conference was organised by REEP in conjunction with Quaker group, Friends of the Centre. My talk is going...
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Science’s superstitions
The cult of randomness and the taboo on teleology This article is an extended version of a combination of three chapters, 5, 26, and 27, of The Way: An ecological world view by Edward Goldsmith. It was...
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Did God really do such a bad job?
A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 28 No. 3, May–June 1998. Republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering information for the Funbook. Underlying the...
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Why not, we’ve got a licence?
A leading article for The Ecologist Vol. 28 No. 3, May 1998. Revised in January & February 2000, and republished in The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006). See ordering...
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Is science neutral?
Following the articles in The Ecologist of April 2000 examining the independence of the scientific world, developmental biologist Professor Lewis Wolpert of University College London debates the...
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Can humanity adapt to the world that science is creating?
"It should be obvious to most people, though it is rarely stated, especially in academic circles, that the environment most friendly to the needs of living things, that within which their behaviour is...
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Whatever happened to ecology?
The science of Ecology has been taken over by the cult of scientific reductionism and has become a weapon in the war on the living world being waged by industrial man. This article of July 2002 is a...
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The super-informed society
Or “Many paths to nonsense: information theory applied to the living world”. Will the proliferation of information technology really help us to solve the important issues we face today, or will it...
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Is science a religion?
Published in The Ecologist Vol. 5 No. 2, February 1975. We live in an Age of Faith, not in God but in Science. If most of us are still capable of facing the mounting problems of the world today with...
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The Promethean Enterprise
RapNews bring us their latest musings on what it’s all about (above); in particular: Man’s quest for ultimate knowledge. But is this the kind of knowledge that we really need? Edward Goldsmith suggests...
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