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Eva Giraud As pointed to by the other articles within this special section, fractious debates have emerged about the relationship between [...]

Sujatha Raman For those who study how people generate and deploy knowledge, the late 20th century is known as a time [...]

Greg Hollin  It always struck me, and I know many others, that one of the most striking aspects of Bruno [...]

Fred Steward The UK’s first Labour government in the 1920s was undermined by ‘fake news’. The Zinoviev letter, published in the [...]

John Holmwood In an article on the recent scandal associated with the radical journal, Third World Quarterly, which published a piece [...]

Carolyn Chernoff Let’s mix metaphors: some kinds of research are cheerleading, inside baseball, and political footballs all at once. Sports allusions [...]

John Drury and Selin Tekin Guven One of the things that sometimes happens after a disaster is that the people affected [...]

Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Christine Garrington For Stephanie, getting tested for the hereditary breast cancer gene was something of a no-brainer. After [...]

Tom Boland and Ray Griffin Do policy makers design welfare systems to punish claimants? By making welfare payments depend upon jobseekers [...]

Janet Salmons I became a social scientist in my high school biology class. I managed to negotiate conscientious objector status with [...]