Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The History of a Fringe Doctrine
Theory of geocentrism is a fusion of ancient history with the cosmos. It's rare that you can see a very public fringe doctrine from beginning to end coherently. And so we have this new theory of he solar system. Instead of being derived from statistical mechanics or astronomical observations, it's derived from what he considers eye witness testimony,. People who were actually there and saw it. The birth of venus was just a natural phenomenon of the rearrangement of the solar system.
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