Scientists are Human
Judgements in Science
Funding of Science
Peer Review
Statistics and Objectivity

Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, Trust Us We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future, Tarcher/Putnam, 2001, chapter 8.

Robert Priddy,Scientific Objectivity in Question, chapter 5 of Science Limited, 1997 .

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Sharon Begley, The science wars. (objectivity and political influence on scientists), Newsweek, v129 n16 April 21, 1997, pp54-7.

Jerome R. Ravetz, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. (book reviews), Issues in Science and Technology, v13 n2 Winter 1996, pp. 84-6.

Theodore M. Porter, Trust in numbers : the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.

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