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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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Science and Social Work: Are They Compatible?:
TL;DR: The authors analyzes some of the sources of resistance to accepting scientific methodology within social work, including political, philosophical, and quasi-religious ones, and concludes that the strength of scientific methods, as opposed to other ways of knowing, includes their utility in proving that some "findings" are indeed false and their skeptical attitude toward new claims.
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Informing Science (IS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS): The University as Decision Center (DC) for Teaching Interdisciplinary Research
TL;DR: It is argued that a transformation of vision can be achieved in science and technology studies (STS) courses because only interdisciplinary research offers a diversity of angles from which undergraduate students approach scientific and technological practices.
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How should behavior analysis interact effectively with the social sciences
TL;DR: The authors argue for a unifying behavioural approach with high scientific ambitions, but with the humble recognition that we have not yet, and may never reach a point we can call "The End of Science".
Citizen Science: Framing the Public, Information Exchange, and Communication in Crowdsourced Science
TL;DR: This paper explored the communication frames used to describe citizen science and how they are created, and investigated the e↵ects of citizen science on the relationship between the public and science, and also situated citizen science in a larger historical context that critques normal science and intersects with other scholarly discussions including science and technology studies, citizenship, expertise, professionalism, and participation.