Strategies to improve the reliability of a theory: The experiment of bacterial invasion into cultured epithelial cells

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 593-614

  Nederbragt, Hubertus ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anchoring of theories; Cell culture; Experimenter's regress; Invasion of bacteria; Mesosome; Multiple derivability; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242636770     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2003.09.003     Document Type: Article

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