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ISBN 10: 1107604656

ISBN 13: 9781107604650

Author: Harry M Collins, Trevor Pinch

Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment. Through a series of intriguing case studies the authors debunk the traditional view that science is the straightforward result of competent theorisation, observation and experimentation. The very well-received first edition generated much debate, reflected in a substantial new Afterword in this second edition, which seeks to place the book in what have become known as ‘the science wars’.

The Golem What You Should Know About Science Canto Classics 2nd Table of contents:

1 Edible knowledge: the chemical transfer of memory

Introduction

Worms

Arguments about the worm experiments

Transplantation versus chemical transfer

Sensitisation versus training

Confounding variables and replication

The Worm Runner’s Digest

The ending of the worm controversy

Mammals

Early experiments

Early reactions

Georges Ungar’s main work

Replication in mammals

The debate with Stanford

Competing strategies

The end of the story

2 Two experiments that ‘proved’ the theory of relativity

INTRODUCTION TO PARTS 1 AND 2

PART 1. DOES THE EARTH SAIL IN AN AETHERIAL SEA?

The tranquil aether sea

Light and the aether

Michelson and relativity

How to measure the speed of the aether wind

The elements of the experiment

The experimental apparatus

The 1881 experiment

The Michelson–Morley 1887 experiment

Morley and Miller in the 1900s

Miller claims to have found an aether drift: his 1920s experiments

The initial experimental responses to Miller

Miller’s 1933 paper and the most recent experiments

Postscript

PART 2. ARE THE STARS DISPLACED IN THE HEAVENS?

The curious interrelation of theory, prediction and observation

The nature of the experiment

The expeditions and their observations

Interpretation of the results

CONCLUSION TO PARTS 1 AND 2

Appendix to chapter 2 part 2

3 The sun in a test tube: the story of cold fusion

The little science route to fusion

Jones’ involvement

The controversy

Excess heat

Nuclear products

Replication

Cold fusion: a theoretical impossibility?

Credibility

Neutron measurements

Conclusion

4 The germs of dissent: Louis Pasteur and the origins of life

Spontaneous generation

The nature of the experiments

Practical answers to the experimental questions

The Pasteur–Pouchet debate

Experiments ‘under mercury’

Flasks exposed at altitude

Sins of commission

Retrospect and prospect on the Pasteur–Pouchet debate

Postscript

5 A new window on the universe: the non-detection of gravitational radiation

Detecting gravity waves

Current status of Weber’s claims and of gravitational radiation

Persuading others

The experimenter’s regress

Scientists at their work

The competence of experimenters and the existence of gravity waves

Gravitational radiation: 1975

How the debate closed

Conclusion

6 The sex life of the whiptail lizard

Introduction

‘Leapin’ lesbian lizards’

Love bites and hand waving

An honourable draw

7 Set the controls for the heart of the sun: the strange story of the missing solar neutrinos

PART 1. BUILDING EXPERIMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS

Collaboration with Cal Tech

Bahcall: a house theorist away from home

Funding the experiment

Building the experiment

PART 2. SCIENCE UNMADE

The first results

Bahcall’s reaction

Iben’s reaction

Ray Davis: an ideal experimenter

Argon trapping

Solutions to the problem

An experiment into the nature of science

Conclusion: putting the golem to work

Looking forward and looking back

Human error

Public understanding of science

Science and the citizen

Forensic science

Public inquiries

Experiments or demonstrations in the public domain

Science on television

Accident inquiries

Science education

Afterword: Golem and the scientists

The two cultures and scientific fundamentalism

Ways of reading

Where is the straw man?

Revolution in Science

New Theory of the Universe

Newtonian Ideas Overthrown

Textbook ‘history’ of science

Ropes and strands

Strands

Types of history

Predicting the bending of light

Ropes

Evaluating science and evaluating the facts of science

Methodological relativism

Does The Golem exaggerate?

Myths

CHANGES TO THE TEXT OF THE SECOND EDITION

NOTES

References and further reading

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