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 | Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (2nd Edition) by Steven Shapin Paperback, 568 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-8018-9421-2 / 0801894212 ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9421-3 / 9780801894213 Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievem | |