Michael D. Gordin
Abstract
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Pseudoscience has been the bane of science since the latter became a professional activity. Rather than dismissing it as wrong, the more efficient way of dealing with pseudoscience's false claims is to stress the nature of science itself with all its problems and pitfalls. [Image: see text]
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Pseudoscience has been the bane of science since the latter became a professional activity. Rather than dismissing it as wrong, the more efficient way of dealing with pseudoscience's false claims is to stress the nature of science itself with all its problems and pitfalls. [Image: see text]
Key concepts: Pseudoscience, Surprise, Shadow (psychology), Obligation, Antithesis, Point (geometry), Library science, Sociology