Contributions by:
Brian Trench
On a sweltering summer’s evening the crowd packed into Connolly Books, Dublin’s last radical bookshop, heard Conor McCabe’s book presented as “an examination of the house itself and not just of the broken furniture” that could become a “weapon.” The house and the furniture are seriously dilapidated. Following several years of steady growth in the…
Read Full Article...In the four months between its UK and US publication this book has left indelible marks. Ben Goldacre’s case for comprehensive reporting of drug trials has been cited in British parliamentary debates, national newspapers and medical journals. He has become a central figure in a new campaign to change the regulation of trials, requiring all…
Read Full Article...Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy – the many faces of Anonymous, by Gabriella Coleman. Verso Books. 2014 The Politics of Open Science, by Alessandro Delfanti. Pluto Press, 2014 Hardly a day passes without some news of hacking in the headlines. Somebody hacks into a bank’s systems, governments hack into email servers routinely, the North Koreans or…
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