Andrew Needham
Andrew Needham is the author of the prize-winning book Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (Princeton University Press, 2014). He is currently writing a history of oil and public corruption in the early 20th century. He teaches US environmental, urban, and indigenous history at New York University.
All essays by Andrew Needham
Naomi Oreskes: Feminist Science Is Better Science
Science thrives when it is open to anyone who has the talent for it, and the taste for the hard work involved. And society thrives when our institutions are seen to be fair. But my argument is that the case for diversity is epistemic as well as moral. I’ve never heard a scientist say, Yeah, it’s really great that the feminists pointed this out because once we understood the epistemic benefits of diversity, we realized that we could do better science.” My goal is that, in the future, scientists will say that.