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In his classic study
Scientific Knowledge and
its Social Problems
(1971), Jerome Revetz
(b. 1929) made most of
these points. Other
critics such as Hilary and
Steven Rose reinforced
the arguments. But
behind these analyses
there was a long story of
demystification of science
which involved fierce
battles in philosophy and
the history of science.
In the aftermath of World War
Two, philosophers of science were
presenting their teachings as being
as objective and value-free as
science itself, when in fact they were descended from the committed,
even militant "logical positivists" of the 1920s Vienna Circle.
Karl Popper
(1902-94)
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