Science under siege : defending science, exposing pseudoscience
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- ISBN: 9781591027157 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1591027152 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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370 p. : ill ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2009.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Collection of recent articles from Skeptical inquirer. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-370). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Science and skeptical inquiry. Science and the public : summing up thirty years of the Skeptical inquirer / Paul Kurtz ; In defense of the higher values / Kendrick Frazier ; Ann Druyan talks about science, religion, wonder, awe-- and Carl Sagan / Ann Druyan ; Carl Sagan's last Q&A on science and skeptical inquiry supplemented with Ann Druyan's "The great turning away" / Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan ; Can the sciences help us to make wise ethical judgments? / Paul Kurtz ; Science wars : science and the Bush Administration / Chris Mooney ; Do extraordinary claims really require extraordinary evidence? / Massimo Pigliucci ; The fallacy of misplaced rationalism / Robert Sheaffer -- Critical inquiry and public controversies. "We find that intelligent design is not science" : excerpts from the Dover Federal Court ruling on intelligent design / John E. Jones III ; introduction by Kendrick Frazier ; The "vise strategy" undone : Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District / Barbara Forrest ; Four common myths about evolution / Charles Sullivan and Cameron McPherson Smith ; Only a theory? Framing the evolution/creation issue / David Morrison ; Is intelligent design creationism? / Massimo Pigliucci ; The memory wars / Martin Gardner ; AIDS denialism vs. science / Nicoli Nattrass ; Global climate change triggered by global warming / Stuart D. Jordan ; The global warming debate : science and scientists in a democracy / Stuart D. Jordan ; A skeptical look at September 11th : how we can defeat terrorism by reacting to it more rationally / Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris ; Strong response to terrorism not necessarily a symptom of fallacious statistical reasoning or human cognitive limitations / Steven Pinker ; The anti-vaccination movement / Steven Novella ; Vaccine safety : vaccines are one of public health's great accomplishments / Richard G. Judelsohn ; Warning : animal extremists are dangerous to your health / P. Michael Conn and James V. Parker ; Predator panic : a closer look / Benjamin Radford ; The case for decentralized generation of electricity / Thomas R. Casten and Brennan Downes -- Understanding pseudoscience, investigating claims. The philosophy behind pseudoscience / Mario Bunge ; The Columbia University "miracle" study : flawed and fraud : supplemented with Third strike for Columbia University Prayer Study : author plagiarism / Bruce Flamm ; Anomalous cognition : a meeting of the minds / Amir Raz ; Anomalous cognition? : a second perspective / Ray Hyman ; The PEAR proposition : fact or fallacy? : supplemented with PEAR lab closes, ending decades of psychic research / Stanley Jeffers ; Gary Schwartz/s energy healing experiments : the emperor's new clothes? / Harriet Hall ; Testing Natasha / Ray Hyman ; "Dr." Bearden's vacuum theory / Martin Gardner ; Lessons of the "fake moon flight" myth / James Oberg ; Magnet therapy : a billion-dollar boondoggle / Bruce L. Flamm ; Oxygen is good-- even when it's not there / Harriet A. Hall ; Undercover among the spirits : investigating Camp Chesterfield / Joe Nichell ; How to "haunt" a house / Benjamin Radford ; The devious art of improvising, Lessons one and two / Massimo Polidoro ; A patently false myth-- still! / Samuel Sass. |
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