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  1. Department of Social Studies of Science, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

    David Turnbull

  2. Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh, 1117 Cathedral of Learning, 15260, Pittsburgh, Pa., USA

    Henry Krips

  3. Department of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire, Hamilton Smith Hall, 03824, Durham, NH, USA

    Val Dusek

  4. Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK

    Steve Fuller

  5. Institut de Physique Théorique, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2, chemin du Cyclotron, B-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Alan Sokal

  6. Department of Physics, New York University, 4 Washington Place, 10003, New York, NY, USA

    Jean Bricmont

  7. Department of History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Alan Frost

  8. Philosophy Department, Flinders University, 5001, SA, Australia

    Alan Chalmers

  9. Department of Science, Technology and Society, The University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Anna Salleh

  10. Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, 02215, Boston, MA, USA

    Alfred I. Tauber

  11. School of Science and Technology Studies, The University of New South Wales, 2052, Kensington, NSW, Australia

    Yvonne Luxford

  12. Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

    Nicolaas Rupke

  13. Division of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Philosophy, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Steven French

  14. School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales, 2052, Kensington, NSW, Australia

    Peter G. Brown

  15. Department of Philosophy, East Tennessee State University, Johnston City, TN., USA

    Hugh LaFollette

  16. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh University, 15260, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Peter Machamer

  17. School of Science and Technology Studies, The University of New South Wales, 2052, Kensington, NSW, Australia

    Nicolas Rasmussen

  18. Department of Philosophy, Emory University, 30322, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Andy J. Miller

  19. Department of Philosophy (MC 267), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1421 University Hall, 601 South Morgan Street, 60607-7114, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Marya Schechtman

  20. Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Ross S. West & John Forge

  21. School of Science, Griffith University, 4111, Nathan, Queensland, Australia

    David Oldroyd

  22. Department of History, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Nancy Demand

  23. Department of Philosophy, St. Mary's College, 46556, Notre Dame, IN, USA

    Darrin W. Belousek

  24. Lewis Department of Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology, 3301 South Dearborn, 60616, Chicago, IL, USA

    Warren Schmaus

  25. Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, The University of Toronto, M5S 1K7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Sungook Hong

  26. Philosophy Department, Flinders University, 5001, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Alan Chalmers

  27. Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Sydney, 2006, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

    Rachel A. Ankeny

  28. School of Philosophy, The University of Sydney, 2006, NSW, Australia

    Peter Anstey

  29. All Souls College, OX1 4AL, Oxford, UK

    Jeremy Butterfield

  30. School of Education, The University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, Australia

    Harshi Gunawardena

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Turnbull, D., Krips, H., Dusek, V. et al. Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness: Avoiding intellectual impositions. Metascience 9, 347–498 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02913492

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