Synthesized answer
The author, Bruno Latour, provides evidence through fieldwork conducted in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute [1]. This fieldwork serves as the basis for the book "Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts" [1].
The work presents a skeptical view of laboratory science, treating it as an anthropological study of the scientist's culture [1]. The authors analyze how the social environment of the laboratory generates scientific papers and other "texts," and how scientific understandings of reality are formed by statements that are currently considered too costly to alter [1].
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From the book
Title: Laboratory Life by Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar Description: This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based on field work done by Bruno Latour in Roger Guillemin's laboratory at the Salk Institute and…