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.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.Emphasizing that there is no clear line of
demarcation between science and nonscience, Friedlander leads the
reader through case after entertaining case, covering the favorites
of "tabloid science" such as astrology and UFOs, scientific
controversies such as cold fusion, and those maverick ideas that
were at first rejected by science only to be embraced later.There
are many good stories here, but there is also much learning and
wisdom. Students of science and interested lay readers will come
away from this book with an increased understanding of what science
is, how it works, and how the nonscientist should deal with science
at its fringes.
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