ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze
What can a Marxist approach tell us about scientific ‘facts’?
This week the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY explains how a dialectical methodology can help ask the right questions
AN EARLIER answer looked at what a Marxist approach can reveal about science’s relation to society.
The questions science asks (and the answers that it gets) are closely related to the way that science is organised, who pays and who profits, as well as to the more general needs of society.
That doesn’t mean that science is necessarily lacking in objectivity (although sometimes this is the case).
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