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Title:
The overproduction of truth : passion, competition, and integrity in modern science / Gianfranco Pacchioni.
Author:
Pacchioni, G. (Gianfranco), 1954- author.
Publication Information:
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Call Number:
Q179.94 .P3313 2018
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780198799887
Physical Description:
x, 159 pages : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"An earlier version of this book has appeared as Scienza, quo vadis : tra passione intellettuale e mercato, ©2017"--Title verso page.
Contents:
No progress without basic research -- The way we were : doing science in the previous century -- Publish or perish -- Judges and defendants -- Units of measurement -- Are we too many? -- Famous frauds -- Do we still believe in science?
Uniform Title:
Scienza, quo vadis?. English
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