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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
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The article was published on 1994-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 718 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Science wars & Intellectual freedom.read more
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Beyond Our Original Horizons: the Tropicalization of Beverton and Holt
TL;DR: It is shown that the normal science which has led to new methods for estimating growth, mortality and other statistics required for yield per recruit analyses in data-sparse environments, has not only enriched fisheries science and aquatic biology as a whole, but has also contributed to identify the limitations of the single-species research programme originally defined by Beverton and Holt.
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Dwarfing the Social? Nanotechnology Lessons from the Biotechnology Front.
TL;DR: This approach broadens the range of social considerations relevant to the sustainable development of nanotechnology and emphasizes the need for developing social tools for nanotechnology innovation while the technology is in its early stages of design.
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Exploring Expertise: Issues and Perspectives
TL;DR: The issue of expertise is becoming a recognized "issue" in a range of scholarly disciplines: not least, science and technology studies, including technology assessment and science-and technology policy; gender studies, especially feminist critiques of science and medicine; organizational sociology and behaviour; management, especially strategic management, technology management, and human resource management; and in the various disciplines associated with the development of expert systems and artificial intelligence as discussed by the authors.
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Facts and values in risk assessment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the implications of public risk perception on public policy making and concluded that public risk perceptions offer a poor guide for public policymaking, while subjective considerations, often called values, play a role in public perception of risk, those values are often inappropriate for government decisionmaking.
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737-Cabriolet: The Limits of Knowledge and the Sociology of Inevitable Failure
TL;DR: This paper explored the implications of epistemic accidents and a constructivist approach to failure, sketching their relationship to broader issues concerning technology and society, and reexamining conventional ideas about technology, accountability, and governance.