I just got this in my spambucket: I'm a little disturbed by this. I've read quite a bit of Popper's writing, and I've never known him to claim "that scientific facts are products of the social interaction among scientists." (That was an idea which is attributed to Kuhn, and even in Kuhn's case, it's really a distortion by those who followed after him. What he said was that paradigm shifts are akin to political upheavals. I've never read where Sir Karl said any such thing.) Claiming t