Blog Gilbert Cockton: Why 'bwords will suddenly reappear every time we are here

摘要

[A barrack room is a] U.K. military accommodation for non-officers, and a barrack room lawyer is someone who holds forth on rules and regulations that they are not qualified to comment on. By analogy, barrack room philosophers of science lay down the law on the rules of science, when they have never read any key references on the history, philosophy, or sociology of science. They are folk scientists, with folk remedies to scientific practices. They are not well-informed experts.