Why Does the Web Seem to Bring Out the Best in Science but the Worst in Politics?

Bioessays 41 (10):1900134 (2019)
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Graphical Abstract Reading Venki Ramakrishnan's “Gene Machine”, describing the race to decipher the structure of the ribosome, inspired thoughts on the power of the internet: mostly for good in science, but often detrimental to society. Why is this so? The non-ideological nature of science holds part of the answer.

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