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The Undergrowth of Science by Walter Bruno Gratzer; Walter Gratzer is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Undergrowth of Science about?
Walter Gratzer's themes in the stories he relates in this book are collective delusion and human folly. Science is generally seen as a process bound by rigorous rules, which its practitioners must not transgress. Deliberate fraud occasionally intrudes, but it is soon detected, the perpetrators cast out and the course of discovery barely disturbed. Far more interesting are the outbreaks of self-delusion that from time to time afflict upright and competent researchers, and then spread like an epid
Who reads The Undergrowth of Science?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Walter Bruno Gratzer; Walter Gratzer
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198604358
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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