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False modesty

Steven Shapin: Never pure: Historical studies of science as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and society, and struggling for credibility and authority. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, 568pp, $70.00 HB, $32.00 PB

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  1. For example, phrases like “the new scientific practice” and “the new science” that in the originals referred to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been changed here to “new scientific practices” and “the reformed scientific enterprise”—changes that are minor in themselves, and are not imposed consistently, but still register a changed view of the unity and identity of the subject.

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Johns, A. False modesty. Metascience 23, 159–164 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9846-7

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