The borderlands of science : where sense meets nonsense /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shermer, Michael
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.