FOR THE RECORD

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2. Technoscience 9 (Spring 1996), 30.

3. Ibid., 29.

4. P.R. Gross and N. Levitt , Higher Superstition (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, MD, 1994).

5. B. Barnes , D. Bloor and J. Henry , Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis (Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1996).

6. S. Epstein , Impure Science (Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1996).

7. D. MacKenzie , Knowing Machines (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996).

8. M. Mulkay , The Embryo Research Debate (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1997).

9. P. Rabinow , Making PCR (Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1996).

10. D. Vaughan , The Challenger Launch Decision (Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1996).

11. For specific `denials', see op. cit. (5), viii-xii, 200-02: “... sociology as currently constituted can only seek to offer a partial view of what creates and sustains knowledge and the distribution of credibility” (201), which puts paid to `imperialism' (and, for that matter, to `reductionism'); and passing criticisms of `idealism' (e.g. 13, 15, 76 & 201-02) account for any hint of so-called `trendy irrationalisms'.

12. Nature, 385 (30 January 1997), 373.