How the Cold War Defined Scientific Freedom

The first publication on scientific matters that the CCF supported was called Science and Freedom. Even in the 1950s Karl warned his brother to disentangle himself “from the parasites of the Cold War,” and said that the CIA’s involvement in shaping the idea of freedom was contrary to Michael’s own commitment against government involvement in intellectual inquiry.) The point is not, as Wolfe argues clearly, that “freedom” is an impossible value to hold, nor that scientific internationalism isn’t worth defending, nor that the fiction of apolitical science means that science is better off being relentlessly politicized.

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