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9780252026010

Science or Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780252026010

  • ISBN10:

    0252026012

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-02-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $29.95

Summary

Ball lightning, polywater, the Loch Ness monster. An exploration of the diffuse and porous borders between science and anomalistics.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Defining Categories 1(18)
Anomalistics and Science Compared
19(26)
Knowledge Fights
45(38)
Pseudoscience within Science
83(36)
Mainstream or Unorthodox? Straddling the Pale
119(28)
Scientific Heresies: Beyond the Pale
147(29)
Deciding about Scientific Anomalies
176(63)
References 239(26)
Index 265

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