Melinda Baldwin's guest appearances

Melinda Baldwin

New Books in Science

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

New Books in History

New Books in Intellectual History

New Books Network

New Books in British Studies

Science History Podcast

New Books in the History of Science

Scholarly Communication

New Books in Biology and Evolution

New Books in Physics and Chemistry

Noam Chomsky

Irene Pepperberg

Sean Carroll

Dava Sobel

Dan Lewis

Daniel Ellsberg

Paul Ehrlich

Rai Weiss

David Valentine

Joe Schwarcz

John Matthews

Matthew Meselson

James Muller

Ian Harrison

David Michaels

OwlTail

Josh Shiode

Attacks on science and scientists have been a hallmark of the Trump administration, but such attacks emanating from the U.S. federal government are not new, nor are they restricted to one political party or one branch of government.  The best known of such attacks came from Bill Proxmire, who served in the Senate as a Democrat representing the state of Wisconsin from 1957-1989.  Proxmire achieved national recognition with his monthly Golden Fleece Awards, in which he mocked what he considered to be wasteful government spending.  After Proxmire retired from the Senate, other members of Congress took over the job of calling out what they saw as wasteful government spending on science in their own so-called wastebooks. My first guest is Melinda Baldwin, who comments on the history of the Golden Fleece Award and subsequent wastebooks.  My second guest is Josh Shiode, who comments on the history of an award designed to celebrate science - the Golden Goose Award.

<p>Attacks on science and scientists have been a hallmark of the Trump administration, but such attacks emanating from the U.S. federal government are not new, nor are they restricted to one political party or one branch of government.  The best known of such attacks came from Bill Proxmire, who served in the Senate as a Democrat representing the state of Wisconsin from 1957-1989.  Proxmire achieved national recognition with his monthly Golden Fleece Awards, in which he mocked what he considered to be wasteful government spending.  After Proxmire retired from the Senate, other members of Congress took over the job of calling out what they saw as wasteful government spending on science in their own so-called wastebooks. My first guest is Melinda Baldwin, who comments on the history of the Golden Fleece Award and subsequent wastebooks.  My second guest is Josh Shiode, who comments on the history of an award designed to celebrate science - the Golden Goose Award.</p>

Episode 3. U.S. Congressional Attacks on Science: Melinda Baldwin and Josh Shiode