Recent work in the history, philosophy and sociology of science has revealed that scientists do not work with an abstract scientific method, putting forward theories based on direct and neutral observation. Modern science does not leave us with any criteria that distinguish the theoretical claims of modern western science from those of indigenous non-western sciences. And although the totally artificial Cartesian construction of a disembodied mind generating knowledge was given up a century ago, it is still the model on which patent regimes are based.
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