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#5: Does science really mean progress? Can it ascertain truths regardless of the society in which it operates? After May 1968, many scientists and researchers questioned the foundations of scientific ideology and its relationship with the authorities. As they began to "become sociologists in some way", man and women of science started to advocate a dismantling of the barriers within scientific knowledge and practice and stand for multidisciplinary and socially related science making.

#8: With the Vietnam War in full swing governments tended to involve scientists in the militarization of society and the May ‘68 movement prompted a whole generation of researchers to challenge this harnessing of science to destroy the world. Like the group "Survivre et vivre” (Surviving and Living), their criticism of nuclear weaponry evolved into protest against civilian nuclear power. By taking up environmental issues, they helped to lay the foundations of modern ecology.

Michel Burnier, a sociologist, interviews twenty scientists from various disciplines about the future of science and culture. The number 17 of this series is dedicated to Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, an emeritus professor in theoretical physics and epistemology at the Nice Sophie-Antipolis University.