Borderlands of Science Where Sense Meets Nonsense

Name: Borderlands of Science Where Sense Meets Nonsense
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ISBN: 9780195157987

ISBN-10: 0195157982

ISBN-13: 9780195157987

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael Shermer

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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.

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List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Michael Shermer is the director of the Skeptics Society and the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology. He teaches science, technology, and evolutionary thought in the Cultural Studies Program at Occidental College.



Introduction The Boundary Detection Problem in the Borderlands of Science



Borderlands Theories



Reality Must Take Precedence in the Search for Truth



Nonsense in the Name of Science



Cloning Tests the Moral Borderlands of Science



Racial Differences and What They Really Mean



Punctuated Equilibrium and the Nature of Revolutionary Science



Borderlands People



Copernicus's Heresy and Sulloway's Theory



Alfred Russel Wallace and the Nature of Borderlands Science



Crossing the Boundary from Science to Pseudoscience



Freud, Darwin, and the Hero-Myth in Science



Carl Saganand the Difference Between Orthodoxy and Heresy in Science



Borderlands History



Why the Grass is Always Greener in the Other Century



Mozart and the Myth of the Miracle of Genius



Science at Its Best in the Great Evolution Priority Dispute



Piltdown and the Self-Correcting Nature of Science


Notes


Bibliography


About the Author


Index