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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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Phenomenologies of Mars: Exploring Methods for Reading the Scientific Planetext Of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy
TL;DR: Kreider as discussed by the authors investigates the ways in which language, writing, and textuality participate in building the planet of the Mars Trilogy, treating writing as a coefficient of terraforming.
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The Harder Path--Shifting Gears
TL;DR: A. L. Kroeber as mentioned in this paper pointed out that knowledge becomes collective in the weakest sense and science becomes like men and women in a crowd, looking for one another, each holding a single piece of a very expensive radio.
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Outcomes research and the quality of health care: the beacon of an ethics of evidence.
TL;DR: The author has proposed the "ethics of evidence" as an approach to medical uncertainty, to be adopted as a vital component of biomedical ethics, in the context of current outcomes research, the focus on quality of health care, and related problems of contemporary medicine.
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