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When Science Becomes a Weapon
Hardcover
PhilosophySports GeneralGeneral Political Science
Publisher: Richard L. Kennedy
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Science gave humanity fire, medicine, agriculture, flight, electricity, and the means to understand the universe. It also gave us weapons. That is not the danger.
The greater danger begins when science itself becomes the weapon.
In When Science Becomes a Weapon, Richard L. Kennedy examines a recurring pattern in human history: knowledge becomes power when it is controlled, protected from challenge, and used to demand obedience. From priest-astronomers who could predict eclipses, to eugenicists who measured human worth, to political systems that elevated ideology above evidence, Kennedy follows the moment when explanation becomes authority-and authority becomes coercion.
This is not an argument against science. It is an argument for real science: transparent methods, open questions, evidence that can be examined, and conclusions that remain subject to revision.
The weapon is not the eclipse. The weapon is the exclusive claim to explain it.
Across the history of eugenics, Lysenkoism, public-health emergency powers, institutional consensus, and modern scientific bureaucracy, Kennedy asks the question that matters most: Where does scientific evidence end, and where does the demand for compliance begin?
When Science Becomes a Weapon is Volume 10 of the Settled Science Heresy series-a challenge to the habit of confusing credentialed authority with truth, and an appeal to every independent mind unwilling to surrender the right to ask questions.
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