At the Fringes of Science With a New Epilogue
- List Price: $50.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
- Publish date: 09/01/1998
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Scientific discoveries are constantly in the news. Almost daily we hear about new and important breakthroughs. But sometimes it turns out that what was trumpeted as scientific truth is later discredited, or controversy may long swirl about some dramatic claim.
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What is a nonscientist to believe? Many books debunk pseudoscience, and some others present only the scientific consensus on any given issue. In At the Fringes of Science, Michael Friedlander offers a careful look at the shadowlands of science. What makes Friedlander's book especially useful is that he reviews conventional scientific method and shows how scientists examine the hard cases to determine what is science and what is pseudoscience. The author asserts that the public must better understand how science is done if science is to serve the public interest and offers prescriptions for how scientists themselves can assist this process.
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