A tale of two sciences
Subtitle: memoirs of a dissident scientist
By: Peter A. Sturrock
Publisher: Exoscience
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780984261406
Subjects: Astrophysicists; Biography; Pseudoscience
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Conventional science. Out of the blue ; Hitting the high road ; Seeing the world ; Stanford beckons ; To the sun and beyond ; The intriguing solar neutrinos; title: Part 2. Unconventional science. UFOs; title: Unidentified (still?) Flying Objects ; A guide to the Condon Report ; The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ; The AAS (American Astronomical Society) survey ; An introduction to parapsychology ; Founding a society ; Reincarnation, anyone? ; An introduction to anomalous healing ; The Rockefeller Review; title: Part 3. Towards a synthesis. Probabilistic thinking and Bayes' theorem ; Science á la Bayes ; Models of reality ; U-Physics ; Beyond the blue horizon.