Author Meets Critics: Myrna Perez's _Criticizing Science_

Myrna Perez's Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy (Johns Hopkins UP 2024) analyzes the career of Harvard paleontologist and public intellectual Stephen Jay Gould against the backdrop of contemporary debates around science, religion, and political controversy. Gould is a well-studied figure in the field of science and religion, but this discussion largely focuses on a small subset of his work. Perez draws on an expansive study of the full sweep of his career, considering especially how he modeled a relationship between science and power that still holds relevance today.