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Harry Collins is well known for both his skepticism concerning experimental results and evidence and for what he calls the “experimenters’ regress,” the view that a correct outcome is one obtained with a good experimental apparatus, whereas a good experimental apparatus is one that gives the correct outcome. He has expressed this view at length in Changing Order (Collins 1985).
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Franklin, A. (1999). How to Avoid the Experimenters’ Regress. In: Can that be Right?. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 199. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5334-8_2
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