# The golem

**Author(s):** Harry Collins, H. M. Collins, Harry M. Collins, Trevor Pinch
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-golem/verdict.json
**Genres:** history, science, popular-science, essays, reference
**Pages:** 212
**Publisher:** Cambridge University Press
**Published:** Mon Sep 01 1997 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780521645508
**ISBN-10:** 0521645506
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-golem

## Description

"What is the Golem? In Jewish mythology the Golem is an effigy or image brought to life. While not evil, it is a strong, clumsy, and incomplete servant. Through a series of case studies, ranging from relativity and cold fusion to memory in worms and the sex lives of lizards, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch debunk the traditional view that science is the straightforward result of competent theorisation, observation and experimentation and show that scientific certainty is the interpretation of ambiguous results."

## SageChimp reader verdict

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