Science for the People Magazine

07/26/2024

Come join us for our SftP Symposium at UC Berkeley, August 16, 2024! Link to register in bio!

07/26/2024

Come join us for our Science for the People Symposium, August 16, 2024 at UC Berkeley! Link to register in bio!

09/23/2021

PDFs of our new issue, "Don't Be Evil," are hitting inboxes today! This issue also marks a return to print for SftP. Current digital subscribers can upgrade their subscription before Oct. 15 to receive a print copy. More info and subscription options here:

After a long hiatus, we are finally back in print for our next issue: "Don't Be Evil." Pre-order your copy by subscribing now!

09/16/2021

We're excited to announce a new special issue dedicated to a critical rereading of SftP's 1974 book China: Science Walks on Two Legs. We present the original text along with new recollections and commentary from SftP delegates to China and other scholars.
https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/rereading-china-2021-special/

08/19/2021

New online: Timothy LaRock surveys the range of political responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by scientists, from opposing factions on the question of lockdowns to the many who refrain from political action, in "The Politics of Scientific Consensus." https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/web-extras/public-health-lockdown-covid-19-great-barrington-declaration/

08/05/2021

New for SftP Online: Miguel Pinheiro explores the history of ayahuasca use, its growing popularity and acceptance by Western science and medicine, and what that all might mean for its Indigenous practitioners in "Ayahuasca: Caramel Gold?"

Ayahuasca is being explored by the nascent psychedelic industry, but what’s in it for the Native populations who created the medicine?

08/03/2021

Our Winter 2021 issue will be called “Cooperation: Theory and Practice for the Commons," and we're accepting proposals for art and writing! Pitches can be in English or Spanish, up to 400 words. Deadline for submissions is August 25. Find more info here:

Call for radical perspectives on the theory and practice of "Cooperation" for the next issue Science for the People magazine.

07/28/2021

New in the Lewontin Memorial Collection: SftP's editorial collective had the honor of translating Santiago Benítez's "Profile of a Dialectical Biologist" into English. This overview of his accomplishments was originally published in La Izquierda Diario. https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/lewontin-special-issue/profile-of-a-dialectical-biologist/

Lee este artículo en español aquí: https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/lewontin-special-issue/perfil-de-un-biologo-dialectico/

A portrait of a celebrity in the scientific world, whose death is mourned by those who strive towards a "science for the people," free from the shackles of capitalism.

07/22/2021

Wrapping up our Racial Capitalism issue, check out what our various chapters and working groups have been up to! Featuring BIPOC Caucus, Translation Working Group, People’s Science Network, Atlanta, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, & Cambridge. https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol24-1-racial-capitalism/spring-summer-2021-organizing-reports/

07/12/2021

Short archive feature today: to pair with Emily Brooks's new review of Alondra Nelson's book on Black Panthers and healthcare, check out Herb Fox's 1970 article "Panthers Suggest a 'Free Science Program' to SESPA — Science for the People." https://archive.scienceforthepeople.org/vol-2/v2n4/panthers-suggest-science-program/

07/12/2021

New online! In "Reading Body and Soul During the COVID-19 Pandemic," Emily Brooks considers Alondra Nelson's 2011 book on the Black Panthers' healthcare work and the role efforts like People's Free Medical Clinics could have had in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Body and Soul’s exploration of the vision of healthcare put forward by the Black Panther Party provides a way to imagine a healthier society.

07/08/2021

Archive series: we continue our focus on the late Richard Lewontin with his 1988 piece about testifying in a lawsuit against the University of California regarding its agricultural research practices. Check out "Science for the People in Action" on p. 6-7.

The case brought against UC's Agricultural Experiment Station contended that researchers there failed to consider how their work would affect small family farmers. Here Lewontin describes the explicit anti-labor bias of many of the scientists revealed by court documents.
http://science-for-the-people.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SftPv20n5s.pdf