Scientific method and the problem of demarcation -- Misconceptions about how science works -- The importance of the scientific attitude -- The scientific attitude need not solve the problem of demarcation -- Practical ways in which scientists embrace the scientific attitude -- How the scientific attitude transformed modern medicine -- Science gone wrong : fraud and other failures -- Science gone sideways : denialists, pseudoscientists, and other charlatans -- The case for the social sciences -- Valuing science.
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