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A framework for understanding science as haunted by what it excludes—the ghosts of forgotten questions, suppressed findings, marginalized researchers, and paths not taken. Spectral Science recognizes that every scientific paradigm has a shadow: what it can't see, won't admit, or has actively excluded. These ghosts haunt the present, shaping what can be studied by marking what can't. Spectral Science studies these hauntings: not to exorcise them (impossible) but to make them visible, to remember that every scientific truth is built on forgotten unknowns, every paradigm on suppressed alternatives. It's science studies that attends to absence, silence, and the ghosts that always accompany discovery.
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