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Our most serious business is the conduct of our own life. In order to make the best decisions we need the best information on the world we live in. And nowadays we expect a large proportion of that information to be provided by science. Consequently, all reflective human beings (not just the professional scientists) have a stake in science.
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Mosterίn, J. (2000). Observation, Construction and Speculation in Cosmology. In: Agazzi, E., Pauri, M. (eds) The Reality of the Unobservable. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 215. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9391-5_16
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