At the fringes of science /
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...
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Boulder :
Westview Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.