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What is inductive risk?

Kevin C. Elliott and Ted Richards (eds.): Exploring inductive risk: case studies of values in science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 312pp, $39.95 PB

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    S. Andrew Schroeder

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Schroeder, S.A. What is inductive risk?. Metascience 28, 29–32 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0349-4

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