Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the UnknownMacmillan, 1 апр. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 336 Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek's lessons about chance and time |
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... scientists and philosophers have been aware that the facts never speak for themselves . Objective data are filtered through subjective minds that dis- tort the world in myriad ways . One of the founders of early modern sci- ence , the ...
... scientist with no stake in the outcome and you will get a rather different answer : cluster = or cause . It all depends . Additional studies must be conducted . Are there other towns and cities with similar correlations between the ...
... scientists who testified for the defense said her symptoms amounted to nothing more than “ a bad flu . " By the end of 1994 , an unbelievable 19,092 individual lawsuits had been filed against Dow Corning , shortly after which the ...
... Scientists want to know if silicone really causes disease . Either it does or it does not . Marcia Angell wrote a book on this subject , Science on Trial , in which she explained how " a lawyer questioning an epidemiologist in a ...
... scientists change their minds . One of the chief proponents of the theory that human groups ( so- called races ) evolved independently in separate regions ( after a much earlier exodus out of Africa ) , the University of California ...
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