Science/medicine/evidence/proof

MERTON:

Proposed a set of clear norms for sceintific practice, legitimatized in terms of institutional values:
Commuism
Universalism
Disinterestedness - acting to benefit a common scientific enterprise rather than for personal gain - should disengage their interests.
Organised Scepticism

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a physicist with interests in history of science.
Spoke about Paradigms:
Pre-science---- normal science--- crisis----revolution---( New) normal science---- crisis:
Pre-science: characterised by disagreement, debate over fundemntals.
Normal science: govened by single paradigm.
Crisis: anomalies become serious.
Revolution: New paradigm appears, different questions are relevant, solves the anomilies
(New) Normal science: happens when majority of scientists have switched paradigm, new problems to solve, new methods, new anomolies...

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(sociology of scientific knowledge)
A true sociology of science would be:
Casual:-
Impartial:
Symmetrical: All belifes are on a par with one another with respect to the causes of thie credibility.
Reflexive:

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his work build on strong performance, focusing on the principle of impartiality and symmetry although largely from methodological reasons.
interested in the scientific work of Webber on the detection of gravity waves (Big bang)

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