This book examines the structure and operation of peer review as a family of quality control mechanisms and looks at the burdens placed on the various forms of

This book examines the structure and operation of peer review as a family of quality control mechanisms and looks at the burdens placed on the various forms of

What do we know about the possible poisons that industrial technologies leave in our air and water? How reliable is the science that federal regulators and legi

Historically, the scientific method has been said to require proposing a theory, making a prediction of something not already known, testing the prediction, and

He has tried - in his career and, specifically, in this volume - to understand science without accepting the culture of science uncritically.