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""... are dinosaurs social constructs? Do we really know anything about dinosaurs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments of the paleontological imagination? A few years ago such questions would have seemed preposterous, even nonsensical. Now they must have a serious answer.""At stake in the ""Science Wars"" that have raged in academe and in the media is nothing less than the standing of science in our culture. One side argues that science is a ""social construct,"" that

Science --- Dinosaurs. --- Dinosauria --- Reptiles, Fossil --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy.