Scientific Skills and Their Proper Uses

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In five pages this paper assesses the observation made by sociologist Dorothy Nelkin, ''Scientists should restrain their tendency to oversell their work and consider the biases and beliefs that will ultimately shape the uses of a powerful science' contained in The Grandiose Claims of Geneticists in this consideration of how scientific skills should be properly used. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.