"When Activists and Scholars Find Themselves in Conflict Over Critical Matters of Human Identity"

"That would be a shame, because in addition to being highly readable, 'Galileo's Middle Finger' has an important and seldom-voiced message. 'Science and social justice require each other to be healthy,' Dreger writes, 'and both are critically important to human freedom.' Yet, too often, from Dreger's perspective, ideological or politically strategic needs take priority over the evidence. People, while trying to do good, find themselves deliberately ignoring or obscuring the truth."


In Salon, Laura Miller reviews Alice Dreger's Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists and the Search for Justice in Science.


Tom Bartlett at The Chronicle of Higher Education talks with Dreger.