Many democratic theorists continue to view scientific expertise as either an apolitical resource for competent decision making or a dangerous source of technocracy and disenchantment. Constructivist science studies, in contrast, shows how expert claims often embody and perpetuate political...

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In 1830 W. H. Sleeman, a servant of the East India Company, 'discovered' a religious cult of highway robbers. Victims were murdered at the scene of the crime by strangulation with a silk scarf. This phenomenon he termed 'thuggee' and the gang members who preyed upon native travellers 'thugs'....