Science is not Neutral

Science and technology are not neutral in the struggle against oppression and domination. Many revolutionaries have rightly critiqued science and technology as aiding the ruling class in continued domination of people and the planet. Unfortunately, very few of these critiques have come from scientists themselves. Most scientists, even radical scientists declare science is entirely neutral. They claim technology has been used by both oppressed people's and the oppressors and that their role in scientific research plays no role in continued domination. As a revolutionary biochemistry student, I would like to show over the course of my blog that this is an entirely a false assumption. While science has aided in many humanist efforts, at it's core science and technology have always been one of the primary modes of social control used by the capitalists to control the masses. As science students,we are taught that our results and research are simply questions about the world that are completely unrelated to the public sphere. As science students, our curricula is based on route memorization of replication schemes which can be readily accessed on Wikipedia. Students are not required to take classes on science and the public interests, let alone given access to classes that connect science to the larger sphere of knowledge. We are taught to disdain the "easy majors" such as the humanities which are "not real science." There is a reason that sociology has a higher percentage of revolutionaries : sociology students are actually taught to see the larger structures of oppression while we are doing the "hard science" of memorizing DNA replication schemes. Enough is enough! Science is not neutral and it the duty of the next generation of scientists and revolutionaries to expropriate an institution that has been denied the masses to serve the common good.
Some of the subjects I will cover include; the pharmaceutical industry and patent rights which give excessive control to pharmaceutical corporations which prevent poor people from accessing basic medications throughout the world, genetic engineering especially Monsanto and other technologies that have allowed corporations to destroy indigenous crops and livelihoods, science as an institution which specifically discriminates against women and minorities from participation, scientific language which excludes the public from a critical realm of knowledge, technologies which have been used to eliminate jobs and work so that corporations could increase profits rather than increase leisure for all, science curricula and the prevention of critical thinking about structural oppression, the reluctance of public participation of the scientific community, the systematic elimination by scientists and doctors of folk medicine and science so that people have to rely on experts and professionals instead of their community and finally the funding of programs at universities to science and technology programs and prevent the development of other studies and subjects.
The idea that science is intrinsically an oppressive institution is not a new idea to anarchist movements and has been identified as one of the causes of the impending ecological collapse. I aim to give legitimacy to these concerns as an insider and as someone with access to scientific jargon. Until science is seen as a means of public control and folk science is respected to the degree of laboratory science, science and technology will continue to be one of the most prominent methods of social control. This blog is meant to alert the public to issues within the scientific community as well as serve as a call for scientists to begin to question the legitimacy of an institution that has all too often aided in the systematic destruction of entire people's and nations. It is time that we work with the public to create publicly controlled and accountable scientific community that works for the common good and the elimination of oppression.
-Ramblings of a Revolutionary Science Student