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The scientific attitude : defending science from denial, fraud, and pseudoscience /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McIntyre, Lee C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Science > Social aspects.
Science > Methodology.
Pseudoscience.
Table of Contents:
  • Scientific method and the problem of demarcation
  • Misconceptions about how science works
  • The importance of the scientific attitude
  • The scientific attitude need not solve the problem of demarcation
  • Practical ways in which scientists embrace the scientific attitude
  • How the scientific attitude transformed modern medicine
  • Science gone wrong : fraud and other failures
  • Science gone sideways : denialists, pseudoscientists, and other charlatans
  • The case for the social sciences
  • Valuing science.