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Don’t we all believe in scientific facts? Replies to my critics

Peter Vickers: Identifying future-proof science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 288 pp, £72 HB

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Vickers, P. Don’t we all believe in scientific facts? Replies to my critics. Metascience 33, 23–29 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-023-00926-w

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