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Helga Nowotny and Giuseppe Testa: Naked genes: Reinventing the human in the molecular age. Translated by Mitch Cohen. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 2010, vii+144pp, $25.00/£17.95 PB

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de Melo-Martín, I. Through a glass, darkly. Metascience 21, 367–370 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9633-2

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