Quantum Leaps In The Wrong Direction Where Real Science Ends And Pseudoscience Begins
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Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends ... and Pseudoscience Begins
The National Academy Press presents the full text of "Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends ... and Pseudoscience Begins." Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins wrote the book, which was published by Joseph Henry Press in 2001. The authors examine how science views exotic ideas, such as unidentified flying objects (UFOs), astrology, and extra sensory perception (ESP).
Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction
"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.
Shadows of Science
Author: Kendrick Frazier
language: en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date: 2023-11-07
In this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open hostility to science). Pseudoscience romps in the shadows of science but takes on the guise of science to excite, sell, mislead, and deceive the public. Anti-science denigrates, even denies, findings of science for ideological ends. In this dangerous age of misinformation (and dis-information), we need science’s remarkable truth-seeking tools more than ever to help counter society’s crazier impulses in which opinion, beliefs, and lies trump facts, evidence, and truth. In one sense, Shadows of Science is Frazier’s love letter to science, one of humanity’s greatest inventions, one we should exalt for its unique ability to find provisional truths about nature. In congenial prose he reports on recent discoveries and describes how science works and how its error-correcting mechanisms lead eventually to new knowledge. He tells the stories of some of our champions of science and reason. He describes the little-appreciated values of science, how it embraces uncertainty and humility, and its emphasis on fact-based observation and experiment. Pseudoscience adopts some of science’s language and has a beguiling appeal, but there the similarities end. Frazier has professionally reported on frontier scientific discoveries and observed and exposed the pretensions and dangers of pseudoscience and anti-science his entire career. Here he shares his experiences, his knowledge and insights, and his love and passion for our ability to learn what’s real about the natural world—and to identify and expose fake science, pretend science, and anti-science in all their multifarious forms.