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The postmodern assault on science
The scientific method has been the guiding principle for investigating natural phenomena, but post modernist thought is starting to threaten the foundations of the scientific approach. The rational, scientific view of the world has been painstakingly built over millennia to guarantee that research can have access to objective reality: the world, for science, contains real objects and is governe...
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After the perhaps naive optimism surrounding science during the post-war period, there has been a clear backlash fuelled by widening scientific illiteracy and fears about nuclear war, environmental degradation and so on. These fears have found fertile ground in the general anti-expert, anti-establishment sentiments that have increased in the past decades, and on which several civic movements ha...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: EMBO reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1469-221X,1469-3178
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.130