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A selection of papers illustrating the 'strong programme' of the sociology of scientific knowledge, in which positivist distinctions between science and pseudoscience are ignored. Papers by Farley and Gieson on the Pasteur-Pouchet debate on spontaneous generation, Woolgar on the confused accounts of the discovery of pulsars, Shapin on phrenology in Edinburgh, Collins and Pinch on the strategies by which parapsychologists and their critics seek to gain or refuse its recognition as a science, and Westrum on the scientific reception of meteorites should all be of interest to Magonia readers.
- Peter Rogerson, from Magonia 20, August, 1985.
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