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Quantum leaps in the wrong direction : where real science ends and pseudoscience begins / Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins ; with cartoons by Sidney Harris.

Title
Quantum leaps in the wrong direction : where real science ends and pseudoscience begins / Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins ; with cartoons by Sidney Harris.
Author
Wynn, Charles M.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Wiggins, Arthur W.
  • Harris, Sidney.
Description
x, 226 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
Annotation
Alternative Title
Quantum leaps
Subject
  • Pseudoscience > Popular works
  • Science > Methodology > Popular works
  • Science > methods
Genre/Form
  • Popular works
  • Popular works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The road to reality: scientific method -- Scientific reasoning in action -- The road to reality versus the road to illusion -- UFOs and the extraterrestrial life hypothesis -- Out-of-body experiences and entities -- The astrology hypothesis -- The creationism hypothesis -- Normal sensory perception, extrasensory perception, and psychokinesis -- Reflections on the scientific approach to reality.
ISBN
030907309X (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001024426
OCLC
  • 46729417
  • SCSB-10778424
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library