Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Psychiatry and Alchemy
In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, people didn't do different stuff. They just call what doing chemistry, and they call what those other people are doing alchemy. And you start to get a separation. That's the propaganda war. It's like some something gets fringed as the other in order to legitimize yourself. Newton spent ac but people talk about that like it's a goofe part of their life, as opposed to actually kind of normal. Yet if you go back four centuries or something, lhike b, i still have im the classic cases, einstein, where you see this happening,. except then he's kind of wrong about quantum theory, but wrong for
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