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  • ARE WE ALL SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS NOW?
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    ARE WE ALL SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS NOW?
    HARRY COLLINS
    To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science’s pre-eminence. Revelations such as Climategate, or debates about the safety of the MMR vaccine, have dented our confidence in science. In this provocat...

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  • GRAVITY'S GHOST AND BIG DOG
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    GRAVITY'S GHOST AND BIG DOG
    HARRY COLLINS
    Gravity’s Ghost and Big Dog brings to life science’s efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein’s theories but also transform astronomy. Although no gravitational wave has ever been directly detected, the previous five years have been an especi...

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  • GRAVITY'S GHOST
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    GRAVITY'S GHOST
    HARRY COLLINS
    In theory, at least, gravitational waves do exist. We are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation, which is generated when stars explode or collide and a portion of their mass becomes energy that ripples out like a disturbance on the surface of a serene pond. But unfortunately no gravitational wave has ever been directly detected even though the search has lasted more than...

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  • GRAVITY'S SHADOW
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    GRAVITY'S SHADOW
    HARRY COLLINS
    According to the theory of relativity, we are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation. When stars explode or collide, a portion of their mass becomes energy that disturbs the very fabric of the space-time continuum like ripples in a pond. But proving the existence of these waves has been difficult; the cosmic shudders are so weak that only the most sensitive instruments ca...

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  • TACIT AND EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE
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    TACIT AND EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE
    HARRY COLLINS
    Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can’t explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called “tacit knowledge” by physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi, but here Harry Collins analyzes the term, and the behavior, in much greater detail, often departing from Polany...

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  • DR. GOLEM
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    DR. GOLEM
    HARRY COLLINS / TREVOR PINCH
    A creature of Jewish mythology, a golem is an animated being made by man from clay and water who knows neither his own strength nor the extent of his ignorance. Like science and technology, the subjects of Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch's previous volumes, medicine is also a golem, and this Dr. Golem should not be blamed for its mistakes—they are, after all, our mistakes. The p...

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  • RETHINKING EXPERTISE
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    RETHINKING EXPERTISE
    HARRY COLLINS / ROBERT EVANS
    What does it mean to be an expert? In Rethinking Expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans offer a radical new perspective on the role of expertise in the practice of science and the public evaluation of technology. Collins and Evans present a Periodic Table of Expertises based on the idea of tacit knowledge—knowledge that we have but cannot explain. They then look at how some ...

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