Anti-science

Dickson, D. The scientific message contained in a parable of anti-science. THES, no. 294 (10 Jun 1977) 9. 

Thomas, J. (1991). Science or anti-science Archaeological Review from Cambridge 10 27-36. 

Kopel, David. Anti-Gun, Anti-Science The Real Enemy Is Shoddy Research. National Review Online. Available online. URL http //www. nationalreview.eom/kopel/kopel022701.shtml. Posted on February 27, 2001. Kopel, a criminologist and research director for the Independence Institute, imagines what it would be like if diseases were treated as crimes. The results would be as absurd and the research as shoddy as in the real world where some advocates want to treat gun violence as a health rather than criminal issue. An example of such junk science are studies that show higher risks of murder for people who have guns do not show causation and do not control for numerous related variables. 

Maddox, J. (1994) Defending Science Against Anti-Science, Nature, 368, 185. 

During almost one and half century, the chemistry of metal hydrides demonstrated many interesting and instructive circumstances. We can see both experimental successes (natural and accidental) and unrealized expectations both scientific clear-headings, successful prognoses and theories (models) which proved to be unsound mistakes - conscientious or not both persistent searches of truth (effectuated sometimes by the tests-and-mistakes way) and anti-science in its different manifestations - up to falsifications. Here sensations also can be seen -both true and false. 

G. Holton. Science and Anti-Science. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1993. 

Haack, S. 1997. Science, Scientism, and Anti-Science in the Age of Preposterism. The Skeptical Inquirer (http //www.csicop.oig/si/9711/preposterism.html) 21(6) 37-42. 

Anti-science at its most effective invokes religious dogma to stifle scientific enquiry. A familiar example is Aristotle s prime mover, the only source of mechanical interaction, associated with a perfect god. In this case the philosopher came to share in the divine authority, which for centmies defied the onslaught of experimental physics. 

Sampson, W.(1995). Anti-science trends in the rise of the alternative medicine movement. In P.R. Gross, N. Levett, and M.W. Lewis, (eds.). Flight from Science and Reason. John Hopkins University Press, USA. (pp. 188-197). 

Just as scientists tend to be suspicious of the anti-science lobby in the Science Wars debate, they are also correctly suspicious of chemical or other educators who openly support relativistic views about science. The view that individual students may bring a variety of preconceptions to the study of chemistry is a valuable one, but this should not commit educators to relativistic views about the nature of mature science. 

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