The Borderlands of Science
Where Sense Meets Nonsense
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 February 2003
- ISBN 9780195157987
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 236x157x25 mm
- Weight 558 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones and figures 0
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Short description:
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.
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In The Borderlands of Science 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 the many interesting stories and insights involving many of history's most famous scientists.
Review from previous edition ...a delightful antidote to the current proliferations of media-hyped pseudoscience.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Borderlands Theories
The Knowledge Filter
Theories of Everything
Only God Can Do That?
Blood, Sweat, and Fears
Paradigms and Paradoxes
Part II: Borderlands People
The Day the Earth Moved
Heretic-Personality
A Scientist Among the Spiritualists
Pedestals and Statues
The Exquisite Balance
Part III: Borderlands History
The Beautiful People Myth
The Amadeus Myth
A Gentlemanly Arrangement
The Great Bone Hoax
Bibliography
Index
