Half a House: A Response to McKinney

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-240

  Pinch, Trevor ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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EID: 84992897486     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030631299029002005     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. William J. McKinney, ‘Where Experiments Fail: Is “Cold Fusion” Science as Normal?’, in Noretta Koertge (ed.), A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 133–50 [hereafter WJM]
2. Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, The Golem: What Everyone should know about Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), Chapter 3, ‘The Sun in a Test Tube: The Story of Cold Fusion’, 57–78 [hereafter C&P].
3. See, for example, H.M. Collins, Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice (London & Beverly Hills, CA: Sage 1985)
4. T.J. Pinch, Confronting Nature: The Sociology of Solar-Neutrino Detection (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1986).
5. This is nicely detailed by Greg Myers, Writing Biology: Texts and the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990).