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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.read more
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Philosophy from the Outside
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"We Shall Have to Make the Best of It:" The Conversion of Dennis Sciama
TL;DR: The cosmologist Dennis W. Sciama (1926-1999) was a long-standing advocate of the steady state model of the universe, and also pace the stereotypical image of a scientist, Sciama was motivated significantly by "extrascientific" or aesthetic factors in his adoption of the model as discussed by the authors.
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Some thoughts on sharing science
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TL;DR: A review of the difficulties and prospects of sharing science within the academy and the ripple effect that such activities may have on the larger social context of attitudes toward science can be found in this article.
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I hear dead people: science, technology and a resonant universe
TL;DR: In this article, an exploration of twentieth-century research into electronic voice phenomena (EVP), celebrated by its adherents as proof of a spiritual plane of existence beyond the readily observable or audible, is presented.
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THE ASSAULT ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT: PUBLIC CHOICE AND PoLITIcAL CORRECTNESS
TL;DR: It is possible to radically change the meaning of the United States Constitution without changing the document as discussed by the authors, without changing a single word in the entire document, and this has happened with respect to the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the Contracts Clause.