Main Title |
The borderlands of science : where sense meets nonsense / |
Author |
Shermer, Michael.
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Publisher |
Oxford University Press, |
Year Published |
2001 |
OCLC Number |
44905116 |
ISBN |
0195143264; 9780195143263 |
Subjects |
Science--Miscellanea ;
Belief and doubt ;
Parapsychology and science ;
Skepticism ;
Pseudowetenschap ;
Wetenschapsdynamica ;
Theorievorming
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EOAM |
Q173.S56 2001 |
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Region 8 Technical Library/Denver,CO |
07/13/2009 |
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Collation |
viii, 360 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-352) and index. |
Contents Notes |
The knowledge filter : reality must take precedence in the search for truth -- Theories of everything : nonsense in the name of science -- Only God can do that? : cloning tests the moral borderlands of science -- Blood, sweat, and fears : racial differences and what they really mean -- The paradox of the paradigm : punctuated equilibrium and the nature of revolutionary science -- The day the earth moved : Copernicus's heresy and Sulloway's theory -- Heretic-personality : Alfred Russel Wallace and the nature of borderlands science -- A scientist among the spiritualists : crossing the boundary from science to pseudoscience -- Pedestals and statues : Freud, Darwin, and the hero-myth in science -- The exquisite balance : Carl Sagan and the difference between orthodoxy and heresy in science -- The Beautiful People Myth : why the grass is always greener in the other century -- The Amadeus Myth : Mozart and the myth of the miracle of genius -- A gentlemanly arrangement : science at its best in the great evolution priority dispute -- The great bone hoax : Piltdown and the self-correcting nature of science. |
Place Published |
Oxford ; New York |
PUB Date Free Form |
2001 |
BIB Level |
m |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
00063673 |
Merged OCLC records |
46808429; 59511798 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20090709165124 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
03031cam 22005654a 45020 |