Michael Shermer takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science (superstring theory), and just plain nonsense (Big Foot) collide with one another. An excursion through the borderlands of science, history, and historical biography, enlivened by interesting stories and insights involving many of history's most famous scientists.
Michael Shermer takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science (superstring theory), and just plain nonsense (Big Foot) collide with one another. An excursion through the borderlands of science, history, and historical biography, enlivened by interesting stories and insights involving many of history's most famous scientists.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com) and the Director of The Skeptics Society. He is a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology, and hosts the Skeptics Lecture Series at Cal Tech. He has authored several popular books on science, scientific history, and the philosophy and history of science, including Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, and Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (with Alex Grobman). He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I: Borderlands Theories 1: The Knowledge Filter 2: Theories of Everything 3: Only God Can Do That? 4: Blood, Sweat, and Fears 5: Paradigms and Paradoxes Part II: Borderlands People 6: The Day the Earth Moved 7: Heretic-Personality 8: A Scientist Among the Spiritualists 9: Pedestals and Statues 10: The Exquisite Balance Part III: Borderlands History 11: The Beautiful People Myth 12: The Amadeus Myth 13: A Gentlemanly Arrangement 14: The Great Bone Hoax Bibliography Index
Introduction Part I: Borderlands Theories 1: The Knowledge Filter 2: Theories of Everything 3: Only God Can Do That? 4: Blood, Sweat, and Fears 5: Paradigms and Paradoxes Part II: Borderlands People 6: The Day the Earth Moved 7: Heretic-Personality 8: A Scientist Among the Spiritualists 9: Pedestals and Statues 10: The Exquisite Balance Part III: Borderlands History 11: The Beautiful People Myth 12: The Amadeus Myth 13: A Gentlemanly Arrangement 14: The Great Bone Hoax Bibliography Index
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