Aner: What's next on your a research an writing agenda? Aner: I'm looking at what happened to global science when the soviet union lapsed, like very large scientific community vanished. And how do all those various countries re structure science after that collapse? O very different set of questions, but again, about how science operates. All right, michael, thanks for your work, and thanks for your new book. Ye, very much. Step anme really interesting.
Everyone has heard of the term “pseudoscience”, typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella — astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind. But defining what makes these fields “pseudo” is a far more complex issue. Given the virulence of contemporary disputes over the denial of climate change and anti-vaccination movements — both of which display allegations of “pseudoscience” on all sides — there is a clear need to better understand issues of scientific demarcation. Shermer and Gordin explore the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation.