Detectives and scientists have a lot in common. Both collect data, develop hypotheses and test their assumptions. And both pursue evidence in the hope of a definitive finding. Science was key to the ...

A recent high-profile paper suggesting that science is becoming dramatically less disruptive set the academic world abuzz. One interpretation of this finding — though by no means the only one — is ...

4 Research on the Use of Science in Policy: A Framework The use of science in policy is a human activity embedded in social processes and structures, a point now emphasized several times. We have ...

1. The norms of science, and its structure -- 2. Popper and Kuhn, and their conceptions of what science is -- 3. Laboratory life: Bruno Latour and rhetoricin science -- 4. Is the scientific paper a ...