Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The History of Science Can Be Used to Organize Science
There's a smaller set of people who want to learn othe history of science and think it can teach us something about how we should organize science. So historians can bring up old, unresolved questions and put them in front of them. Or historians can say, eustace von leebig ran a really good laboratory and trained lots of students. If you want to found an institute or found a school, here's what successful people have done in the past. They may not work for you in the future, but you can learn ideas from them. And i think that's one of the reasons why it's important a community of people like me are out there just trying to figure out as
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