Le journaliste retrace l'histoire de 90 controverses scientifiques : fraudes scientifiques involontaires ou délibérées, querelles autour des découvertes scientifiques passant pour des mystifications, etc.--[Memento].
"142" Result
Sort By:
"How Christianity has collectively come to agree with an academic Scientism which claims it knows better than God, I cannot say. But this is the soggy marsh by which we've fooled ourselves into building God's kingdom upon, having conceded to the itching ears and salivating mouth…
"It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. There really are no ultimate authority figures--no one has the secret, and there is no place to look up the definitive answers to our questions (…
"It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. There really are no ultimate authority figures--no one has the secret, and there is no place to look up the definitive answers to our questions (…
"When Galileo dropped cannon-balls from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, he did more than overturn centuries of scientific orthodoxy. At a stroke, he established a new conception of the scientific method based upon careful experimentation and rigorous observation -- and als…
"When Galileo dropped cannon-balls from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, he did more than overturn centuries of scientific orthodoxy. At a stroke, he established a new conception of the scientific method based upon careful experimentation and rigorous observation -- and als…
Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental qualities of the world ar…
Why we get the world wrong -- Intuitive theories of the physical world -- Matter : what is the world made of? How do those components interact? -- Energy : what makes something hot? What makes something loud? -- Gravity : what makes something heavy? What makes something fall? --…
Humans are born to create theories about the world-unfortunately, they're usually wrong, and keep us from understanding the world as it really is Why do we catch colds' What causes seasons to change' And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet h…