Science or Pseudoscience Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena and Other Heterodoxies

Name: Science or Pseudoscience Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena and Other Heterodoxies
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ISBN: 9780252026010

ISBN-10: 0252026012

ISBN-13: 9780252026010

Edition: 2001

Authors: Henry H. Bauer

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 9/14/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Defining Categories


Which Knowledge? Natural Science or Social Science?


Scientific Knowledge: Tried and True?


Being Realistic about Science


How Agreement Is Reached in Science


What about the Social Sciences?


What Gets Called Pseudoscience



Anomalistics and Science Compared


Contrasting Natural Science and Social Science with Anomalistics


Contrasting Natural Science with Social Science and Anomalistics


Summing Up



Knowledge Fights


Presumptions


Arena of Dispute


Tactics


Evidence


Probability and Statistics


Typical Fallacies


Ignorance


Closure


Fraud


Actual Cases



Pseudoscience within Science


N rays


Polywater


Cold Fusion


High-Temperature Superconductivity


More Than Meets the Public Eye


"Pathological" Science



Mainstream or Unorthodox? Straddling the Pale


Bioelectromagnetics and Life


Archaeoastronomy


Other Borderland Subjects



Scientific Heresies: Beyond the Pale


Commercial Huckstering


Wellness Quackery


Velikovsky


Wilhelm Reich


Loch Ness Monsters


Extrasensory Perception


Serious Anomalistics



Deciding about Scientific Anomalies


Demarcation: Substance or Trash?


Unorthodoxy in General


Belief and Action


Acquiring Anomalous Beliefs


Maintaining Anomalous Beliefs


Assessing Evidence


Lack of Guidance


Benefits of Anomalistics


References


Index