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Nature 442, 8 (6 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442008a; Published online 5 July 2006

Sociologist fools physics judges

Jim Giles

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But do social scientists understand science?

After more than 30 years of studying the physicists who work on gravity waves, spending countless hours talking to physicists and writing a book on the history and sociology of the field, social scientist Harry Collins had a question. Could he pass as a physicist?

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