Shadows of Science av Kendrick Frazier

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<p>In this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open hostility to science). Pseudoscience romps in the shadows of science but takes on the guise of science to excite, sell, mislead, and deceive the public. Anti-science denigrates, even denies, findings of science for ideological ends. </p><p>In this dangerous age of misinformation (and dis-information), we need science¿s remarkable truth-seeking tools more than ever to help counter society¿s crazier impulses in which opinion, beliefs, and lies trump facts, evidence, and truth.</p><p>In one sense, Shadows of Science is Frazier¿s love letter to science, one of humanity¿s greatest inventions, one we should exalt for its unique ability to find provisional truths about nature. In congenial prose he reports on recent discoveries and describes ho