Contents

Preface

Introduction

  1   Scientific Method and the Problem of Demarcation

  2   Misconceptions about How Science Works

  3   The Importance of the Scientific Attitude

  4   The Scientific Attitude Need Not Solve the Problem of Demarcation

  5   Practical Ways in Which Scientists Embrace the Scientific Attitude

  6   How the Scientific Attitude Transformed Modern Medicine

  7   Science Gone Wrong: Fraud and Other Failures

  8   Science Gone Sideways: Denialists, Pseudoscientists, and Other Charlatans

  9   The Case for the Social Sciences

10   Valuing Science

Bibliography

Index

List of Illustration

Figure 1.1

List of Tables

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