Michael W Friedlander

At The Fringes Of Science (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429970719
• Artikelnr.: 54172935

Autorenporträt

Michael W Friedlander

Inhaltsangabe

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