Olival Freire, Jr. The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics . Foreword by Silvan S. Schweber. xvi + 356 pp., illus., figs., tables, index. Heidelberg: Springer, 2015. €79.49 [Book Review]

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