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Acknowledgements Preface 1. Scientists' discourse as a topic 2. A possible history of the field 3. Contexts of scientific discourse 4. Accounting for error 5. The truth will out 6. Constructing and deconstructing consensus 7. Working conceptual hallucinations 8. Joking apart 9. Pandora's bequest Notes Index.
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