Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction
Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 January 2017
- ISBN 9780190620295
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 157x236x20 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 44 0
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Short description:
"Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction" carefully deconstructs five examples of pseudoscience--UFOs, out-of-body experiences, astrology, creationism, and ESP-- and gives easy recipes to test other dubious notions so that the reader can ascertain what lies in the realm of real science and what more properly deserves the tag of pseudoscience.
MoreLong description:
Get the straight, scientific story on things like astrology, ghosts, spontaneous human combustion, psychic surgery, and ESP. You hear about these fantastic happenings every day on television and in the supermarket tabloids. Is any of this true or are they making it all up? While many people tune in just for laughs, plenty of readers believe their outrageous claims - often because they simply don't have a clear notion of what science really is. So how do you figure out what constitutes real science and what is nonsense? "Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction" carefully deconstructs five examples of pseudoscience - UFOs, out-of-body experiences, astrology, creationism, and ESP - and gives easy recipes to test other dubious notions so that you can tell what lies in the realm of real science and what more properly deserves the tag of pseudoscience.
This second edition of "Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction" will include a brand new chapter on alternative medicine, up-to-date links for reliable skeptical websites, organizations and meetings, and a fully updated additional reading section.
A necessary antidote to the anti-science and pseudoscience that has gained new prominence... The main features that add to the text are illustrations by the esteemed cartoonist Sidney Harris... Recommended.
Table of Contents:
Preface to the Second Edition
Prologue
1. The Road to Reality: Scientific Method
2. Scientific Reasoning in Action
3. The Road to Reality Versus the Road to Illusion
4. UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Life Hypothesis
5. Out-of-Body Experiences and Entities
6. The Astrology Hypothesis
7. The Creationism Hypothesis
8. Normal Sensory Perception, Extrasensory Perception, and Psychokinesis
9. Alternatives to Medicine
10. Reflections on the Scientific Approach to Reality
Epilogue
Glossary
Additional Reading
Websites
Educational Modules
Index
