At The Fringes Of Science

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 aug 2019

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 presen

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367314613
ISBN-10: 0367314614
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface -- 1 Science and Its Imitators -- 2 Oldies but Goodies -- 3 Hesitant Revolutions-Successful and Failed -- 4 Science and Its Practice -- 5 The Machinery of Science -- 6 Respectable Maverick Ideas -- 7 Walking on Water or Skating on Thin Ice -- 8 Tabloid Science -- 9 Pscience -- 10 Fraud: Yes, No, and Maybe -- 11 Political Pseudoscience -- 12 Taking Stock -- 13 Responding to Fringe Science -- Epilogue

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In this book, Michael Friedlander provides an increased understanding of what science is, how it works, and how the nonscientist should deal with science at its fringes, showing how scientists examine the hard cases to determine what is science and what is pseudoscience.

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