Science, Pseudo-Science, and Society

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Waterloo, Ont.: Published for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities by Wilfrid Laurier University Press (1980)
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS It is my lot, if not my duty, in presenting these opening remarks at our conference, to take the title of our meeting seriously. ...

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0889201005   9780889201002   9780889207936

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10.51644/9780889207936

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Apocryphal knowledge: the misuse of science.M. Osier
The Influence of Alchemy on Newton.  (pages 145--170)Richard J. Westfall
Deploying 'pseudo-science'then and now'.  (pages 237--272)Roger Cooter

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