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Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction   Science versus Pseudoscience and the “Demarcation Problem”

CHAPTER 1   Frustrating Conversations

CHAPTER 2   Hard Science, Soft Science

CHAPTER 3   Almost Science

CHAPTER 4   Pseudoscience

CHAPTER 5   Blame the Media?

CHAPTER 6   Debates on Science: The Rise of Think Tanks and the Decline of Public Intellectuals

CHAPTER 7   From Superstition to Natural Philosophy

CHAPTER 8   From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science

CHAPTER 9   The Science Wars I: Do We Trust Science Too Much?

CHAPTER 10   The Science Wars II: Do We Trust Science Too Little?

CHAPTER 11   The Problem and the (Possible) Cure: Scientism and Virtue Epistemology

CHAPTER 12   Who’s Your Expert?

Conclusion   So, What Is Science after All?

Notes

Index

Nonsense on Stilts : How to Tell Science from Bunk [Second Edition]
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