Pseudoscience the conspiracy against science
"In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of pseudoscience. When emotions and opinions are more widely disseminated than scientific findings, and self-proclaimed experts get their expertise from Google, how can the average person distinguish real science f...
| Other Authors: | Kaufman, Allison B., 1976- (Editor), Kaufman, James C. (Editor), Lilienfeld, Scott O., 1960- (writer of foreword.) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword:
- Navigating a post-truth world : ten enduring lessons from the study of pseudoscience /
- Scott O. Lilienfeld
- Introduction:
- Pseudoscience : what it costs and efforts to fight it
- I. The basics of pseudoscience.
- Pseudoscience and the pursuit of truth /
- David K. Hecht ;
- The psychology of (pseudo)science : cognitive, social, and cultural factors /
- Emilio J. C. Lobato and Corinne Zimmerman ;
- The illusion of causality : a cognitive bias underlying pseudoscience /
- Fernando Blanco and Helena Matute ;
- Hard science, soft science, and pseudoscience : implications of research on the hierarchy of the sciences /
- Dean Keith Simonton
- II. What pseudoscience costs society.
- Food-o-science pseudoscience : the weapons and tactics in the war on crop biotechnology /
- Kevin M. Folta ;
- An inside look at naturopathic medicine : a whistleblower's deconstruction of its core principles /
- Britt Marie Hermes ;
- Risky play and growing up : how to understand the overprotection of the next generation /
- Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, and David Ball ;
- The anti-vaccine movement : a litany of fallacy and errors /
- Jonathan Howard and Dorit Rubinstein Reiss
- III. Scientific (or pseudoscientific) soundness.
- Understanding pseudoscience vulnerability through epistemological development, critical thinking, and science literacy /
- Arnold Kozak ;
- Scientific failure as a public good : illustrating the process of science and its contrast with pseudoscience /
- Chad Orzel ;
- Evidence-based practice as a driver of pseudoscience in prevention research /
- Dennis M. Gorman ;
- Scientific soundness and the problem of predatory journals /
- Jeffrey Beall ;
- Pseudoscience, coming to a peer-reviewed journal near you /
- Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky
- IV. Pseudoscience in the mainstream.
- "Integrative" medicine : integrating quackery with science-based medicine /
- David H. Gorski ;
- Hypnosis : science, pseudoscience, and nonsense /
- Steven Jay Lynn, Ashwin Gautam, Stacy Ellenberg, and Scott O. Lilienfeld ;
- Abuses and misuses of intelligence tests : facts and misconceptions /
- Mark Benisz, John O. Willis, and Ron Dumont ;
- Reflections on pseudoscience and parapsychology : from here to there and (slightly) back again /
- Christopher C. French
- V. Science activism : how people think about pseudoscience.
- Using case studies to combat a pseudoscience culture /
- Clyde Freeman Herreid ;
- "HIV does not cause AIDS" : a journey into AIDS denialism /
- Seth C. Kalichman ;
- Swaying pseudoscience : the inoculation effect /
- Kavin Senapathy ;
- The challenges of changing minds : how confirmation bias and pattern recognition affect our search for meaning /
- Indre Viskontas
- VI. Conclusion.
- Truth shall prevail /
- Paul Joseph Barnett and James C. Kaufman.