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Conflicts of Interest
Pages 8-9

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... In the course of the talk John realizes that he has been working on a technique that could make a major contribution to the woric being also led to important scientific insights, as in the case of Lyeil discussed above. The empirical link between scientific knowledge and the physical, biological, and social world constrains the influence of values in science.
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... It is shared knowledge based on a common understanding of some aspect of the physical or social world. For that reason, the social conventions of science play an important role in establishing the reliability of scientific knowledge.
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