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Technical Communication Quarterly Volume 3, 1994 - Issue 1: Rhetoric of Science
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Cold fusion and the sociology of scientific knowledge

Trevor Pinch Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Pages 85-100 | Published online: 11 Mar 2009

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