The postmodern assault on science. if all truths are equal, who cares what science has to say?

EMBO Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 885-889

  Kuntz, Marcel ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Vegetale Grenoble   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DNA STRUCTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOLOGY; THEORY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZATIONS; POSTMODERNISM; SCIENCE; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84867021356     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.130     Document Type: Article

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