[lbo-talk] Science wars -- a new twist

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Fri Oct 6 14:54:50 PDT 2006


Funny thing to happen even as we debate this stuff...

http://platosbeard.org/archives/201

Sociologist Harry Collins poses as a physicist By Jon Lackman - Slate Magazine

In a recent experiment of his design, British sociologist Harry Collins asked a scientist who specializes in gravitational waves to answer seven questions about the physics of these waves. Collins, who has made an amateur study of this field for more than 30 years but has never actually practiced it, also answered the questions himself. Then he submitted both sets of answers to a panel of judges who are themselves gravitational-wave researchers. The judges couldn’t tell the impostor from one of their own.

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--ravi

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