Tag: JWST

• The Lavender Scare and a tangled Webb

  The sins of the past are never that far from us. I occasionally touch on historical topics in my work, often because the incorrect Great Indispensable Man view of science is prevalent. I wrote a relatively short opinion piece about one of those “great men” six years ago for Forbes: James Webb, who was NASA’s…

  Matthew R. Francis

  May 7, 2021

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, Public Figures, Society

  history of science, homophobia, James Webb, James Webb Space Telescope, JWST, social justice