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Technologies of humility

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  • Sheila Jasanoff

    (Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.)

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Researchers and policy-makers need ways for accommodating the partiality of scientific knowledge and for acting under the inevitable uncertainty it holds.

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  • Sheila Jasanoff, 2007. "Technologies of humility," Nature, Nature, vol. 450(7166), pages 33-33, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:450:y:2007:i:7166:d:10.1038_450033a
    DOI: 10.1038/450033a
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