This imperative is not rhetorical—it is the premise of his book. As Gordin’s subtitle promises, The Pseudoscience Wars centers on a single figure around which defunct theories, elaborate ...

On the Fringe Michael D. Gordin Oxford Univ., $18.95. There is no such thing as pseudoscience, and Michael Gordin has written a book about it. In On the Fringe, Gordin, a historian at Princeton ...

Pseudoscience is “a big problem”, Stea, the author of Mind the Science: Saving Your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry, a new book that raises the concerns about psychological ...

Princeton University historian of science Michael D. Gordin adds in his forthcoming book The Pseudoscience Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2012), “No one in the history of the world has ever ...

Pseudoscience Vs Anti-Science: ... authoring books with titles like One Hundred Proofs the Earth is not a Globe in an attempt to “prove” their ideas were correct. ...

Pseudoscience touches on a breadth of scientific fallacies, from the trite, such as flat Earth theory and fake moon landings, to the obscure. Take ley lines. First conceived in the 1920s by ...

The book promises to make dreams come true through positive thinking, and it has — at least for Byrne and her publishers. The Secret franchise (books, films, DVDs, etc.) has made piles of money ...