Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction
Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins
Get the straight, scientific story on things like astrology, ghosts, spontaneous human combustion, psychic surgery, and ESP. You hear about these fantastic happenings every day on television and in the supermarket tabloids. Is any of this true or are they making it all up? While many people tune in just for laughs, plenty of readers believe their outrageous claims - often because they simply don't have a clear notion of what science really is. So how do you figure out what constitutes real science and what is nonsense? Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction carefully deconstructs five examples of pseudoscience - UFOs, out-of-body experiences, a…
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Weitere Autoren: Wiggins, Arthur W. / Harris, Sidney (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-062031-8
- EAN: 9780190620318
- Produktnummer: 21962984
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 15'626 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 44
Über den Autor
Charles M. Wynn, Sr., received his PhD in Chemistry from University of Michigan. He is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Eastern Connecticut State University.Arthur W. Wiggins graduated from the University of Notre Dame and then attended the University of Michigan, where he received an M.S. in physics. He is currently a Professor of Physics at Oakland Community College in Farmington Hills, MI.Sidney Harris is America's premier science cartoonist (Issac Asimov). He attended Brooklyn College and the Art Students League of New York. He has published more than 600 cartoons in American Scientist and his cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker.
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