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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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Path Dependence, Competition, and Succession in the Dynamics of Scientific Revolution
John D. Sterman,Jason Wittenberg +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a formal dynamic model of the birth, evolution, and death of scientific paradigms based on Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions and find that situational factors attending the birth of a paradigm largely determine its probability of rising to dominance, while the intrinsic explanatory power is only weakly related to the likelihood of success.
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Being Constructive: Social Constructionism and the Environment
Kate Burningham,Geoff Cooper +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the characterisation of "extreme" constructionism is problematic in two senses: first, in that it bears little resemblance to the mild approach actually used in the majority of empirical studies and, secondly, that it is a misleading characterization of a more radical constructionism.
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Constructivism and Science Education: A Further Appraisal
TL;DR: The authors examines the philosophical underpinnings of constructivism, outlines the impact of the doctrine on contemporary science education, details the relativist and subjectivist interpretation of Thomas Kuhn's work found in constructivist writings, and indicates the problems that constructivist theory places in the way of teaching the content of science, and suggests that a lot of old-fashioned, perfectly reasonable educational truisms and concepts are needlessly cloaked in constructivism jargon that inhibites communication with educationalists and policy makers.
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Global climate science, uncertainty and politics: data-laden models, model-filtered data
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss global climate science, uncertainty and politics: Data-laden models, model-filtered data, and model-free data, with a focus on the United States.
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The Evolutionary Roots of Our Environmental Problems: Toward a Darwinian Ecology
TL;DR: This work reviews increasing evidence that Homo sapiens has a long history of causing ecological problems and suggests that integrating evolutionary perspectives into the environmental sciences will help to break down the artificial barriers that continue to divide the biological and social sciences.