Scie 326 unit 7 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What are the three basic mythico-magical assumptions about the world? - 1. Nature is capricious, the unknown is unknowable. 2. Everything is determined by external, willful powers. 3. The future can be controlled by magic. Physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's four common abuses of science - a. longwinded discussions of scientific theories with little or no understanding of the actual meaning of what is being discussed. b. taking natural science concepts and using them in the humanit...