The borderlands of science : where sense meets nonsense /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.