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Ramses Delafontaine: Historians as expert judicial witnesses in tobacco litigation: a controversial legal practice. Series: studies in the history of law and justice 4: Series Editors: Mortimer Sellers. Georges Martyn. Springer, 2015, xxv+453pp, €129.99HB

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Mercer, D. Trying objectivity. Metascience 25, 501–506 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0111-8

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