Unacceptable images -- The world as we find it -- The ideal of objectivity -- The world as we make it -- Mapping reality -- Scientific significance -- The myth of purity -- Constraints on free inquiry -- Organizing inquiry -- Well-ordered science -- Elitism, democracy, and science policy -- Subversive truth and ideals of progress -- The Luddites' laments -- Research in an imperfect world.
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