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Science Center - HOME Science Center Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line by Thomas F. Gieryn, Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believe--cultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith, or nonsense. Gieryn looks at episodes of boundary-work: Was phrenology good science? How about cold fusion? Is social science really scientific? Is organic farming ...

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Michigan Paranormal - HOME Michigan Paranormal More Haunted Michigan: New Encounters with Ghosts of the Great Lakes State Rev. Hunter invited readers of Haunted Michigan to open their minds to the presence of the paranormal all around them. They opened their minds... and unlocked a grand repository of their own personal supernatural experiences. Hunter investigated these modern, active hauntings and recounts the most chilling and most unusual here for you, in further confirmation that the Great Lakes State may be one of the most haunted places in the country. More Haunted Michigan brings you antique ghosts from Jackson, theatrical ghosts from Dowagiac, a growling ghost from Mackinac Island, and ...

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Scientific Racism - HOME Scientific Racism The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund by William H. Tucker, The Pioneer Fund, established in 1937 by Wickliffe Preston Draper, is one of the most controversial nonprofit organizations in the United States. Long suspected of misusing social science to fuel the politics of oppression, the fund has specialized in supporting research that seeks to prove the genetic and intellectual inferiority of blacks while denying its ties to any political agenda. This powerful and provocative volume proves that the Pioneer Fund has indeed been the primary source for scientific racism. Revealing a lengthy history of concerted and clandestine activities ...

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Fictional Characters - HOME Fictional Characters A Question of Character: Scientific Racism and the Genres of American Fiction, 1892-1912 by Cathy Boeckmann, In A Question of Character, Cathy Boeckmann establishes a strong link between racial questions and the development of literary traditions at the end of the 19th century in America. This period saw the rise of "scientific racism", which claimed that the races were distinguished not solely by exterior appearance but also by a set of inherited character traits. As Boeckmann explains, this emphasis on character meant that race was not only a thematic concern in the literature of the period but also a generic or formal ...

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Kant Slam - HOME Kant Slam What Makes You Tick?: The Brain in Plain English by Thomas B. Czerner, What is consciousness? Is there really such a thing as free will? Is there a physiological basis for an eternal soul?For most of our history, the brain and its workings have been hidden from view. Barely a century ago, phrenology– the study of personality based on bumps on the head– was in vogue. But after generations of speculation, we are finally getting our first glimpse of the mind. In What Makes You Tick?, Thomas Czerner’ s elegant and accessible introduction to brain research, you’ ll encounter the scientists and ...

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