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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

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The article was published on 1994-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 718 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Science wars & Intellectual freedom.

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Theories, perturbations, and testability: commentary on Fourie.

TL;DR: David Fourie has written a provocative and interesting article in which he argues that systemic hypnosis is qualitatively different than an Ericksonian conception and approach to hypnosis, and lays out a number of assumptions that underpin his argument.
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Hungering for Middle Ground

TL;DR: The Hunger Games trilogy as discussed by the authors offers a distinctive example of young adult dystopia for many reasons, including its engagement with a wide range of critical perspectives among these, the series is unique in the way it portrays social anxieties relating to the tension between a constructed or embodied self, a tension that seems a crucial element to many popular contemporary texts of this genre.
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Why “more” is not necessarily better: Strategies for communication of science to the public

TL;DR: A re‐examination of the purpose of “public communication of science”; projects and initiatives and by what criteria they should be evaluated is proposed.