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• History
• Enlightenment
• Baconian method
• Karl Popper
• Never sure next result
• Make disprovable theories
• Remainder is truth
• Thomas Khun
• Progress fits and starts
• Theories contradict
• New paradgims
• Michael Foucault
• Social constructionalism
• Produced through language
• Classifications
• Gives meaning
• Produced in discourses

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• Rooted in institution, not natural world
• Royal society
• Confirmed by community
• Publication
• Bias
• Choices of what to study
• Methodology
• Objective over subjective
• Publication bias
• Homeopathy
• Ins. structure knowledge

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• Analysis
• Identify argument
• Look at summeries
• Extract argument and examples
• Use a grid
• Include themes

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• Status
• Expression
• Institution/authority
• Tradition
• Challenge
• Uncertainty and diversity

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• Patricarchy

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• Knowledge itself
• How produced?
• Institutions legitimise
• Decline in expert trust?
• Produces social change?
• Doctors
• Press for legislation
• Prescribe loft insulation
• Circuit of knowledge
• Different types
• common sense
• low status unless validated