216 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Scientific discoveries are constantly in the news. Almost daily we hear about new and important breakthroughs. But sometimes it turns out that what was trumpeted as scientific truth is later discredited, or controversy may long swirl about some dramatic claim. What is a nonscientist to believe? Many books debunk pseudoscience, and some others present only the scientific consensus on any given... Read more
Preface -- Science and Its Imitators -- Oldies but Goodies -- Hesitant Revolutions— Successful and Failed -- Science and Its Practice -- The Machinery of Science -- Respectable Maverick Ideas -- Walking on Water or Skating on Thin Ice -- Tabloid Science -- Pscience -- Fraud: Yes, No, and Maybe -- Political Pseudoscience -- Taking Stock -- Responding to Fringe Science -- Epilogue — 1998
Biography
Michael W Friedlander
