An Introduction to the Forum and Its Origins.

The article details the events that led to the periodical's decision to hold a written forum discussing feminist scientist and scholar Evelyn Fox Keller's paper "Globalization, Scientific Lexicons and the Future of Biology," which analyzes the English scientific language used in the field of biology. Topics discussed include the countries where the panelists came from, the various disciplines represented by the commentators of Keller's paper and the significance of the forum for science.