COMMENT:While it contains only one chapter, "Non-Science," on matters directly related to pseudoscience or the paranormal, the whole book is a must-read for skeptics. This is one of the best recent expositions of the nature of science. It emphasizes how science is <em>not</em> at all a natural, common-sense way of thinking, and shows how ordinary ways of thinking tend to mislead us about what science is. In describing science, Wolpert also provides an effective response to many current criticisms of the scientific enterprise. If you read one book to get an idea of what science and skepticism is about, let this be it.
DATE:19980924
KEYWORDS:pseudoscience skepticism:philosophy
MISC:191p.
PUBLISHER:Harvard University Press
SUBMITADDR:bibliographer@csicop.org
SUBMITNAME:Taner Edis
TITLE:The Unnatural Nature Of Science: Why Science Does not Make (Common) Sense
