
Shadows of Science
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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.
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- Intro
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Escaping the Maelstrom
- Chapter One
- Science and the Frontiers of Discovery
- Chapter Two
- Pseudoscience and Unfounded Ideas
- Chapter Three
- What the Heck Is Pseudoscience?
- Chapter Four
- What's the Harm? Why Does It Matter?
- Chapter Five
- The Subjects of Pseudoscience
- Chapter Six
- Pseudoscience in Medicine, or SCAM
- Chapter Seven
- The Values of Science
- Chapter Eight
- The Demarcation Problem
- Philosophers and Pseudoscience
- Chapter Nine
- Climate Antiscience and Denial
- Chapter Ten
- The Rise of Organized Skepticism
- Chapter Eleven
- Skepticism Goes Global
- Chapter Twelve
- Final Thoughts, Future Hopes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- INDEX
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