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Science Friction

Science Friction

Where the Known Meets the Unknown

by Michael Shermer
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/05/2006

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Michael Shermer has given a lot of things a lot of thought. If your perceptions have ever rubbed you the wrong way, you'll find Science Friction fascinating. --Bill Nye, The Science Guy

A scientist pretends to be a psychic for a day--and fools everyone. An athlete discovers that good-luck rituals and getting into the zone may, or may not, improve his performance. A son explores the possiblities of alternative and experimental medicine for his cancer-ravaged mother. And a skeptic realizes that it is time to turn the skeptical lens onto science itself.
In each of the fourteen essays in Science Friction, bestselling author Michael Shermer explores the very personal barriers and biases that plague and propel science, especially when scientists push against the unknown. What do we know and what do we not know? How does science respond to controversy, attack, and uncertainty? When does theory become accepted fact? As always, Shermer delivers a thought-provoking, fascinating, and entertaining view of life in the scientific age.

Meaty accounts [and] entertaining discussion . . . well worth having. --The Washington Post Book World

[Shermer's] main obsession is the truth . . . Amateur skeptics will learn from his matter-of-fact dismissals of astrology and creationism. --Psychology Today

Extremely entertaining. --Science News
ISBN:
9780805079142
9780805079142
Category:
Popular science
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-05-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Company Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
216x140x23mm
Weight:
0.41kg
Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University.

He is the author of The Moral Arc, The Believing Brain, and many other bestselling titles.

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