Affiliations:
I am a Fellow in the School of Chemical Sciences in the University of East
Anglia, a member of Scientists for Global Responsibility, of the Institute of
Physics, and Secretary of the Martin Ryle Trust.
My current projects include ...
Open Science
The Open Science Proposal is that it would be useful for the scientific
community to have a widely recognised Protocol of openness, applying to
individual scientific projects. Only a small fraction of all scientific
projects would be done according to the required standard of radical openness,
but those projects could claim a 'gold standard' of openness. Such projects
would permit detailed scrutiny and criticism, and so furnish an efficient route
to socially established reliable knowledge.
Open Knowledge
A proposed adaptation of Open Science, focusing on guidelines for knowledge
claims.
Nuclear Education
This section includes
- Is That It? An article on what nuclear physics textbooks say, how they say
it, and what they don't say about nuclear weapons.
- The Shadow of the Bomb. A study of how 57 nuclear physics textbooks relate to
nuclear weapons.
- The Wisdom of Sages. A study on the use of literary quotations in one of
those textbooks.
- A Brief Revisionist Note on the History of the Nuclear Age. A note written as
background to The Shadow of the Bomb.
Asset and Income Limits
It is time to take seriously the idea of limiting the assets and incomes of
humans as individuals. When, on the global scale, the problems over
over-consumption and the gap between rich and poor are discussed, the focus is
usually on rich and poor nations. Yet, great as is the disparity between the
richest and poorest nations, it is dwarfed by the disparity between
individuals...
Other Topics
The common factor in the studies that appear on this site is analysis and advocacy for a just and sustainable world. This connects the subjects areas indicated above with others, notably economics, sustainability, values and ethics, technology, and work. See Other Topics for more detail.
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