The following is a recent release available at the Campus Bookstore in Mallinckrodt Center on the Hilltop Campus or at the Washington University Medical Bookstore in the Olin Residence Hall.
Scientific discoveries are constantly in the news.
But sometimes it turns out that what was trumpeted as scientific truth is later discredited. Controversy may long swirl about some dramatic claim. In the book, Friedlander offers a careful look at the shadowlands of science. He reviews conventional scientific method and shows how scientists examine the hard cases to determine what is science and what is pseudoscience. A Japanese edition of the book will be published in 1997.