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== Bibliography ==
A Bullock & S Trombley [Eds.], The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought, third edition, London: Harper Collins, 1999
Burger, P and Luckman, T, "The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise" in the Sociology of Knowledge. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966
Collins, Harry and Pinch, Trevor, The Golem. What everyone should know about science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993
Gross, Paul R and Norman Levitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
Gerald Holton, Science and anti-science, Harvard University Press, 1993 ISBN 0674792998
Knorr-Cetina, Karin D, & Mulkay, Michael, Science Observed: Perspectives on the Social Study of Science, Sage Publications Ltd, 1983
Knorr-Cetina, Karin D, Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge, Harvard University Press, 1999
Levins, R. "Ten propositions on science and antiscience" in Social Text, 46/47:101–111, 1996.
Levins, R. "Touch Red," in Judy Kaplan an Linn Shapiro, eds., Red Diapers: Growing up in the Communist Left, U. of Illinois, 1998, pp. 257–266.
Levins, R. "Dialectics and systems theory" in Science and Society 62(3):373–399, 1998.
Levins, R. "The internal and external in explanatory theories", Science as Culture, 7(4):557–582, 1998.
Levins, R. and Lopez C. "Toward an ecosocial view of health", International Journal of Health Services 29(2):261–293, 1999.
Nye, Andrea, Words of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic, London: Routledge, 1990
Pepper, David, The Roots of Modern Environmentalism, London: Routledge, 1989
Ullica Segerstrale (Ed), Beyond the Science Wars: the missing discourse about science and society, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000, ISBN 0791446182
Vining, Joseph, On the Future of Total Theory: Science, Antiscience, and Human Candor, Erasmus Institute papers, 1999
Leviathan and the Air Pump Schapin and Shaffer (covers the conflict between Hobbes and Boyle).
The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell (sets out the limits of science from the perspective of a vehement campaigner against anti-science).
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (The first major work to point out the limits of inductive reasoning, the 'new tool of science').
Against Method by Paul Feyerabend (probably the individual most accused of reinvigorating anti-science, although some claim that he is in fact strengthening the scientific debate).

== External links ==
"What's wrong with relativism?", Physics World, by Harry Collins
The Postmodern Critique of Science
A Critique of Western Science by Alex Paterson
The Critique of Science Becomes Academic by Brian Martin
If They Believe That – Science by Reginald Firehammer
The Ontological Reversal: A Figure of Thought of Importance for Science Education by Bo Dahlin
Davidson, Donald, Essays on Actions and Events, OUP, 2001 ISBN 0199246270
Rosenberg, Alex; Kaplan, D. M. (2005). "How to Reconcile Physicalism and Antireductionism about Biology". Philosophy of Science. 72 (1): 43–68. doi:10.1086/428389. ISSN 1539-767X. JSTOR 10.1086/428389. S2CID 170840113.
Psychoneural Reduction The New Wave, John Bickle, Bradford Books, 1998, ISBN 0262024322
Dunning, Brian (8 November 2011). "Skeptoid #283: Top 10 Anti-Science Websites". Skeptoid.