The borderlands of science : where sense meets nonsense / / Michael Shermer
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| Autore: |
Shermer Michael
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| Titolo: |
The borderlands of science : where sense meets nonsense / / Michael Shermer
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 500 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science |
| Belief and doubt | |
| Parapsychology and science | |
| Skepticism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-352) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction: Blurry Lines and Fuzzy Sets: The Boundary Detection Problem in the Borderlands of Science; Part I: Borderlands Theories; Part II: Borderlands People; Part III: Borderlands History; Notes; Bibliography; About the Author; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science (superstring theory), and just plain nonsense (Big Foot) collide with one another. Shermer argues that science is the best lens through which to view the world, but he recognizes that it's often difficult for most of us to tell where valid science leav |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The borderlands of science |
| ISBN: | 0-19-028663-6 |
| 1-280-53527-X | |
| 9786610535279 | |
| 0-19-803272-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827480503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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