- Social aspects, Science, Fraud in science, United States
A lucid explanation of what science is and what it is not, using widely publicized pseudoscientific "sensations" as examples.
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Cool, classical in form, contemporary and spare.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Robert L. Park
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 230
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780195147100
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Professor Park has edited several physics journals and is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research focussed on solid state physics, and he has become noted as a skeptic of pseudoscientific authors.[1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Park "Wikipedia biography"
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