This dialogue arises from some of the issues exposed in Professors Fuller's recent book, ‘Science’. It breaks the mould of the ‘science wars’, in which the idea of science as a search for objective truth has been questioned, by leaving room for compromise and agreement between the practitioners and interpreters of science. Through sustained, non-acrimonious discussion, the protagonists release the debate from its adversarial, science v. antiscience shackles, finding common ground in their concern for the effects of market forces on the uses of science and on the freedom of scientists. Professor Barnett begins with a dispassionate review of ‘Science’.
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