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Research, Applied Science, and Malpractice

Posted: Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 @ 12:44 pm in Politics, Science | No Comments »

I’ve been reading the comments Elise Hancock makes on scientific opinion and consensus (pages 14-18) in her book on Science Writing, Ideas into Words. Hancock characterizes, correctly I believe, that scientific consensus is not like the precedence of law. In law, there are conflicting opinions and the precedence of former court cases, but there is [...]