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  • CULTURAL BOUNDARIES OF SCIENCE
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    CULTURAL BOUNDARIES OF SCIENCE
    THOMAS F. GIERYN
    Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to beli...

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  • TRUTH-SPOTS
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    TRUTH-SPOTS
    THOMAS F. GIERYN
    We may not realize it, but truth and place are inextricably linked. For ancient Greeks, temples and statues clustered on the side of Mount Parnassus affirmed their belief that predictions from the oracle at Delphi were accurate. The trust we have in Thoreau’s wisdom depends in part on how skillfully he made Walden Pond into a perfect place for discerning timeless truths about t...

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