Science

James Heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Thu Dec 7 11:38:28 PST 2000


In message <F248XWzRPTNZStgLzhV00007289 at hotmail.com>, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> writes
>>Science is not decided by consensus
>>--
>>James Heartfield
>
>Interesting discovery, JH. You might want to alert all those scientists
>clamoring to get findings published in peer-reviewed journals that they're
>wasting their time.

Peer review is an institutional check. Scientists involved in it understand that the warrant of scientific findings comes from the object of investigation, not the act of being read.

It's very difficult to do science if you believe that truth is socially constructed. -- James Heartfield



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