Scientific and technological advances have a huge impact on our lives, yet science and society have an ambivalent relationship: science needs democracy to flourish but its techniques are beyond political accountability. In this thought-provoking book, Collins and Evans assert that science gives substance to the way of being of democracy . Consequently, science is a key to achieving and ... Read moresafeguarding our democratic ideals. Barry Barish, Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Caltech; PI and Director of LIGO, 1994 2005 Free-market ideology threatens both science and democracy. Collins and Evans respond not with philosophical arguments but an appeal to common sense. They ask us first to see that we face a basic moral choice, and then to choose the values of modern science. A provocative and thoughtful book. Mark Brown, Professor of Government, California State University, Sacramento Show Less