Expertise: Between the Scylla of certainty and the new age Charybdis

Accountability in Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 127-135

  Collins, Harry M ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Certainty; Cold fusion; Expertise; Gravity waves; Scientific controversy; Truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039577029     PISSN: 08989621     EISSN: 15455815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08989629708573904     Document Type: Article

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