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 claims about the world.
Wikipedia article about the Sokal hoax, in which Alan Sokal - a physics professor at New York University and University College London - submitted a nonsense paper to Social Text, an academic journal of cultural studies. (Referenced in the Science Wars article above.)
Google talk in which Harry Collins discusses the detection of gravitational waves. A lot about the social interactions between scientists here.
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