Science, technology and our future: the big questions.
Publication date: May 2002
Summary
Vandana Shiva argued that science had always been directed through funding. Now there was a need to assess the impact of that direction because of increased commercialisation and because of the ability these developments had to impact on the public. The effect of commercialisation was to undermine the process of peer review, and independent science is becoming almost impossible. She was highly critical of the speech made by Tony Blair on science because Bangalore (from where he drew inspiration for his speech) has many protests and problems in relation to its science institutions. He was also erroneously treating science as if it were a 'mystic' that speaks, whereas it actually flows from funding decisions.
