“Antiscience Zealotry”? Values, Epistemic Risk, and the GMO Debate
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Retraction: GMO debate: inconclusive
Received: 13 August 2013; accepted: 13 August 2013; published online: 20 August 2013. Citation: Frontiers in Genetics Editorial Office (2013) Retraction: GMO debate: inconclusive. Front. Genet. 4:169. doi: 10.3389/fgene. 2013.00169 This article was submitted to Plant Genetics and Genomics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Genetics. Copyright © 2013 Frontiers in Genetics Editorial Office. T...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy of Science
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0031-8248,1539-767X
DOI: 10.1086/697749