Contents: A technocratic view of science. * Soviet sociology of science. * Typology of research in physics. * Pseudo-effects in experimental physics. * Science and nationalism. * Objective realism versus subjective relativism. * Science and the postwar economy. * Toward a methodology of experimental science? * How trustworthy are experimental facts? * Changing pattern of sponsorship in physics. * Supranational applied Big Science : a case study. * Runaway obsolescence? * Is the sociology of scientific knowledge anti-science? * Dennis Gabor, social thinker - 25 years on. * Nobel stakes, Japanese IQ. * Research breakthroughs and military expenditure.The author was born in Hungary and studied philosophy; during the revolution in 1956 he emigrated to England.He became a physicist in London.