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Resistance is futile!

K. Brad Wray: Resisting scientific realism, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 224 pp, $105 HB

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French, S. Resistance is futile!. Metascience 29, 5–10 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00486-3

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