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Biology cliche

The Santa Clause psp Okay. You’ve got nature—neurons, brain chemicals, hormones, and of course, at the bottom of the cereal box, genes. And then there’s nurture, all those environmental breezes gusting about. And the biggest cliche in this field is how it is meaningless to talk about nature or nurture, only about their interaction. And [...]

Understanding Academia and Legitimacy Exchange

According to Fred Turner in From Counterculture to Cyberculture legitimacy exchange is… …a term that refers to the process by which experts in one area draw on the authority of experts in another area to justify their activities. and it follows interestingly with As Bowker explains, “An isolated scientific worker making an outlandish claim could [...]