The Devil is in the (historical) details: Continental drift as a case of normatively appropriate consensus?. Oreskes, N. Perspectives on Science, 16(3):253–264, 2008. 1
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In Social Empiricism, Miriam Solomon proposes a via media between traditional philosophical realism and social construction of scientific knowledge, but ignores a large body of historical literature that has attempted to plough just that path. She also proposes a standard for normatively appropriate consensus that, arguably, no theory in the history of science has ever achieved, including her own ideal type—plate tectonics. And while valorizing dissent, she fails to consider how dissent has been used in recent decades as a political tool to challenge scientific evidence on diverse issues, including the link between tobacco and cancer and the reality of anthropogenic global warming.
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	title = {The {Devil} is in the (historical) details: {Continental} drift as a case of normatively appropriate consensus?},
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	doi = {10.1162/posc.2008.16.3.253},
	abstract = {In Social Empiricism, Miriam Solomon proposes a via media between traditional philosophical realism and social construction of scientific knowledge, but ignores a large body of historical literature that has attempted to plough just that path. She also proposes a standard for normatively appropriate consensus that, arguably, no theory in the history of science has ever achieved, including her own ideal type—plate tectonics. And while valorizing dissent, she fails to consider how dissent has been used in recent decades as a political tool to challenge scientific evidence on diverse issues, including the link between tobacco and cancer and the reality of anthropogenic global warming.},
	language = {en},
	number = {3},
	journal = {Perspectives on Science},
	author = {Oreskes, N.},
	year = {2008},
	note = {1},
	keywords = {5 Ignorance and manufactured doubt, Ignorance et mécanismes de production du doute, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
	pages = {253--264},
}

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