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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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Toward a Multicultural Ecology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose the concept of multicultural ecology as a way of articulating the indivisibility of nature and culture and the multiplicity of cultural-ecological practices.
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Are high-IQ individuals deficient in common sense? A critical examination of the ‘clever sillies’ hypothesis
TL;DR: A controversial hypothesis that high-IQ people tend to be deficient in common sense has been proposed to account for why individuals of highIQ and high social status tend to hold counter-intuitive views on social phenomena as discussed by the authors.
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Is Science Socially Constructed--And Can It Still Inform Public Policy
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Dimension: Fractal Forms and Periodical Texture
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the patterns of sameness and difference inherent in periodical form can be understood by analogy with the infinitely complex but self-similar forms of fractal geometry.
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Rhetorical criticism and the rhetoric of science
TL;DR: The authors argue that none of these purported differences between scientific and public texts bars a rhetorical reading of scientific texts, arguing that the relationship between text and context in the broader field of rhetorical inquiry is not limited to scientific texts.