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Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line Michael Sullivan like laws forbidding interracial marriageWhy is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believecultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith,