Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction - Michael D. Gordin
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Everyone has heard of the term “pseudoscience,” typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Given the virulence of contemporary disputes over the denial of climate change and anti-vaccination movements—both of which display allegations of “pseudoscience” on all sides—there is a clear need to better understand issues of scientific demarcation.
Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation. This book argues that by understanding doctrines that are often seen as antithetical to science, we can learn a great deal about how science operated in the past and does today. This exploration raises several questions: How is the status of science shaped by political or cultural contexts? How does pseudoscience differ from scientific fraud?
Michael D. Gordin both answers these questions and guides listeners along a bewildering array of marginalized doctrines, looking at parapsychology (ESP), Lysenkoism, scientific racism, and alchemy, among others, to better understand the struggle to define what science is and is not. Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction provides a historical tour through many of these fringe fields in order to provide tools to think deeply about scientific controversies.
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This post has 8 comments
May 9th, 2023
Global warming denial involves a ton of astroturfing.
It is a shame that it is so easy for the financial interests to fool people, at least in the short term.
May 9th, 2023
“How is the status of science shaped by political or cultural contexts?”
Very interesting question! In general, ideas that aren’t white, European and Christian are referred to as ‘pseudoscience’, whereas absolutely ridiculous ideas presented by white, European Christians are treated as correct and proven, such as:
-”angels” (hummingbird-sizes humans with wings who fly around granting your wishes for more money, a new car and a bigger house)
-”the power of prayer” (the idea that pushing your hands together and closing your eyes very hard while talking to a god in the sky will convince the god who is responsible for creating all the bad things on earth to suddenly stop doing all these bad things and reverse them)
-”eugenics” (the idea that white people are superior to everyone else because they say they’re superior to everyone else - and exterminated and enslaved most of them, just to prove their superiority)
May 9th, 2023
@koloko Tons of white people do not subscribe to any of these. I think focusing on class is a better strategy.
May 9th, 2023
@koloko Nobody asked you to answer that question. Certainly not after seeing the ignorantl drivel you posted as an answer.
May 10th, 2023
@koloko “ridiculous ideas presented by white, European Christians are treated as correct and proven”
Treated by whom? None of those “ideas” have any credence except with political and/or religious crackpots.
August 19th, 2023
@koloko
you live in a very peculiar racist bubble, koloko
September 17th, 2023
seed please
March 2nd, 2024
I have listened to this audiobook and it was really interesting.
Dealing with a single MP3 file with no chapters was a real pain though.
I took the time to mark down each chapter (and sub-chapter) and created an m4b file.
I don’t really deal with torrent files, so I uploaded it to RapidGator: https://rapidgator.net/file/d8337fb8c4763aecf516577a749aea32/Pseudoscience_A_Very_Short_Introduction.m4b.html
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