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THE
TROUBLES WITH SCIENCE 
by Henry Bauer
Paraview
Press, 2001
ISBN:
1-931044-28-7
Science, 237 pp
Trade Paperback: $14.95
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
THE MODERN
WORLD HAS BECOME FATALLY ADDICTED TO SCIENCE. In the beginning,
the natural sciences were simply humankind's storehouse of
knowledge about the mechanics of the world. But increasingly,
since the late 19th century, science has become a universal role
model for how to acquire knowledge. Science-based metaphors
pervade our words and thoughts. Science is now our very arbiter
of truth. Science has even become a surrogate religion. Thus
science now occupies an impossibly demanding cultural role and,
inevitably, misconceptions about it are rampant. That's the root
of the troubles with science, and curing those troubles requires
that we understand what science's manifold faces are and allow
each to have only as much influence as it really deserves.
REVIEW
"...intellectually rewarding...I applaud the overall scholarship and spirit of
[Fatal Attractions]..." --Eugene Mallove,
Infinite Energy
"In this book, the meaning of science, how science
really works, and the scientific method and its uses and
abuses are discussed in a highly stimulating manner...I
recommend this book highly for adults and students who wish
to examine the creativity and analyticity of scientific
thinking."
--AAAS Science Books & Films
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HENRY BAUER is Austrian by birth, Australian by education,
and American by choice (since 1969). For some 25 years, he
taught chemistry and carried on research in electrochemistry at
the Universities of Sydney (Australia), Michigan, Southampton
(England), and Kentucky. In the 1970s he turned to general
issues relating to scientific activity, in particular how to
differentiate science from pseudo-science. He has also served as
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute & State University, held appointments
in the university's Center for the Study of Science in Society,
and taught both undergraduate and graduate programs in
humanities and science & technology studies. Upon retirement
from teaching at the end of 1999, he became Editor-in- Chief of
the Journal of Scientific Exploration. He has authored several
books, the latest of which is Science or Pseudoscience: Magnetic
Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies.
Author’s
website
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