The Omertà and Beyond
Analyses of the historical, philosophical and sociological origins of the various stereotypes of science and scientists may help us understand where the enchanted view of science comes from. Here we always refer to positivistic and sometimes Popperian philosophy of science which is understood to implicate that science is about facts directly derived from experiments that can thus be rather objectively and directly verified. Based on this unique ‘scientific method’ science yields objective knowledge.