How Superstition Won and Science Lost

How Superstition Won and Science Lost
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Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015018293814
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Book Synopsis How Superstition Won and Science Lost by : John Chynoweth Burnham

Download or read book How Superstition Won and Science Lost written by John Chynoweth Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Burnham studies the history of changing patterns in the dissemination, or "popularization," of scientific findings to the general public since 1830. Focusing on three different areas of science -- health, psychology, and the natural sciences -- Burnham explores the ways in which this process of popularization has deteriorated. He draws on evidence ranging from early lyceum lecturers to the new math and argues that today popular science is the functional equivalent of superstition.


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