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Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of
knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding
to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. Weak Knowledge aims
to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientific findings
but in their strength as accessible resources. The authors show
how, throughout history, many bodies of research have become
precarious due to a host of factors. These factors have included
cultural or social disinterest, feeble empirical evidence or
theoretical justifications, and a lack of practical applications in
a given field's findings. This book brings together cases from a
range of historical periods and disciplines, ranging from personal
medicine to climatology, to illuminate the specific forms,
functions, and dynamics of so-called "weak" bodies of knowledge.
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