Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Is Everything All the Same if There's No Line of Demarcation?
There's been a long quest for this, in a sense. Theres lots of variants of atomism and antiatamism that are at play in the nineteenth century. No one's quite sure which is right. For about 60, 70 years, people just let them all be,. waiting to see what was going to happen. Once you have a theory that works, then you can say, well, it works. Or if a theory you're not quite sure if it works, but it seems plausible, you can keep things in for a long time. If Einstein said, light bends around stars, It bends this much, go ahead and look. If it doesn't, i'm
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