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5Was There Really a Popular Science “Boom”?Science, Technology, and Human Values 12 (2): 29-41. 1987.
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3Do Public Electronic Bulletin Boards Help Create Scientific Knowledge?: The Cold Fusion CaseScience, Technology and Human Values 20 (2): 123-149. 1995.The impact of new technologies on the transformation of information into knowledge is not clear. Especially problematic is the degree to which electronic communication can replace traditional forums in which information is judged and social consensus about its value is achieved. This article uses electronic bulletin boards active during the cold fusion saga that began in 1989 to explore these issues. Dividing the contents of the bulletin boards into big ideas and little ideas, the article sugges…Read more
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7Polemic versus History: Reflections on John C. Burnham’s How Superstition Won and Science LostIsis 110 (4): 775-778. 2019.
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13Robert L. Park. Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud. x + 230 pp., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. $25 (review)Isis 95 (2): 341-341. 2004.
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9Yes, We Have No Neutrons: An Eye-Opening Tour through the Twists and Turns of Bad Science. A. K. DewdneyIsis 89 (3): 566-567. 1998.
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14Selling Outer Space: The Kennedy Administration, the Media, and Funding for Project Apollo, 1961-1963. James Lee Kauffman (review)Isis 86 (3): 526-526. 1995.
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20Scientists and Journalists: Reporting Science as News. Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, Carol L. RogersIsis 77 (2): 341-342. 1986.
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4Creating Connections: Museums and the Public Understanding of Current ResearchALTA MIRA Press. 2004.Science museums are in the business of making science accessible to the public--a public constantly bombarded with new information and research results. How the public understands this information will affect what they expect and take away from a museum's exhibits and programs. Creating Connections looks at the public understanding of research (PUR) and how it affects what science museums do. What are the opportunities and critical issues in PUR? What strategies are working and what are some pit…Read more
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10What Counts as a 'Social and Ethical Issue' in Nanotechnology?Hyle 11 (1). 2005.As 'social and ethical issues' becomes a recurring phrase in the community paying attention to nanotechnology research, a crucial question becomes: what counts as a social and ethical issue? A typical list includes privacy, environmental health and safety, media hype, and other apparently unrelated issues. This article surveys those issues and suggests that concerns about fundamental concepts of ethics, such as fairness, justice, equity, and especially power, unite the various issues identified …Read more
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28Experimenting with Engagement: Commentary on: Taking Our Own Medicine: On an Experiment in Science CommunicationScience and Engineering Ethics 17 (4): 817-821. 2011.Social scientists can explore questions about what counts as knowledge and how researchers—including social science researchers—can produce that knowledge. An art/space installation examining issues of public participation in science demonstrates the process of co-creation of knowledge about public participation, not simply the co-creation of the meaning of the installation itself
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14Yes, We Have No Neutrons: An Eye-Opening Tour through the Twists and Turns of Bad Science by A. K. Dewdney (review)Isis 89 566-567. 1998.
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13Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis by William Glen (review)Isis 86 356-357. 1995.
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12The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science by David M. Raup (review)Isis 78 99-100. 1987.
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15The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science. David M. RaupIsis 78 (1): 99-100. 1987.
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22Selling Outer Space: The Kennedy Administration, the Media, and Funding for Project Apollo, 1961-1963 by James Lee Kauffman (review)Isis 86 526-526. 1995.