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Philosophy, sociology and religion

Philosophy, sociology and religion

Unknown unknowns

13 Oct 2016 Robert P Crease
Taken from the October 2016 issue of Physics World

People who raise “unknown unknowns” to promote a particular course of action – such as closing particle colliders – are doing a disservice to science, says Robert P Crease

Photo of the beamline at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Scare tactics. (Courtesy CERN)
Last May the Huffington Post ran a piece entitled “Why physics experiments at the subatomic level

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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