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At the end of October I was alerted to an article in the SF Chronicle through one of my social media feeds. The article concerned a family from the Silicon Valley school district who were in correspondence with their son's school over some answers in a school chemistry test taken by students in the ...

Instructions for building Harry's interferometer are here.

The importance of science and humanities for democracy – a sketch is a guide to the ideas behind the InSECT Project, written by Harry Collins. It's not super-long - around 10k words - and you should find it very readable. The topics it covers include a look at how our view of science changed in the ...

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This is a set of exemplar materials that we have produced to show how teaching about the way in which the work of artists, musicians and scientists differs in the way that it can and should be interpreted.

We have adopted a format for these materials which provides teachers with guidance on how to ...

For those interested in reading around the the development of ideas in SSK (Sociology of Scientific knowledge).

Wikipedia article about SSK.

Wikipedia article about the Science Wars, a series of scholarly and public discussions in the 1990s over the social place of science in making authoritative ...

Note: information about the all of the people mentioned in this post is available on the InSECT Project website .

The InSECT Project was started by Harry Collins in 2024, out of concern for the way in which the erosion of trust in science and scientists had reached epidemic proportions following ...