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

by Henry H. Bauer

Book Overview

Although science attempts to draw a clear line separating its endeavors from those of "pseudoscience," Henry Bauer reveals that the distinction is both equivocal and misleading. Setting aside science's snowy mantle of truth, Bauer presents pseudoscience--or anomalistics--not as the opposite of science but as something that develops parallel to it.Science assumes anomalies--that is, phenomena that contradict the existing store of knowledge--result...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252026012
• ISBN13: 9780252026010
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"