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Nature 389, 538 (9 October 1997) | doi:10.1038/39168

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Science studies misjudged?

Andrew Pickering1

  1. Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
    e-mail: Email: pickerin@uiuc.edu

Gottfried and Wilson1 remark critically that "SSK [sociology of scientific knowledge] accounts often treat only the earliest phases of a scientific development, when the evidence is uncertain, and largely ignore subsequent convincing confirmations". This is true of controversy studies in SSK, but not of one of the books at issue, my own Constructing Quarks2.