Document (#31125)

Author

Park, R.L.

Title

Voodoo science : the road from foolishness to fraud

Imprint

Oxford : Oxford University Press

Year

2000

Pages

230 S

Isbn

0-19-513515-6

Abstract

0bwohl das Buch von einem Amerikaner für Amerikaner geschrieben wurde, betrifft es uns auch. Es handelt von der zunehmenden Ununterscheidbarkeit von Wissenschaft und Hokuspokus, der sich den Mantel der Wissenschaft umgehängt hat, nicht nur für ganz gewöhnliche Leute, sondern auch für Regierungen und Industrie, ja sogar für die Wissenschaftler selbst. Der Autor, Physikprofessor und Leiter des Washingtoner Büros der American Physical Society, äußert sich seit Jahren einmal die Woche in einer Intemet-Kolumne namens "What's New" zu aktuellen Themen der Wissenschaftspolitik (http://www.aps.org/WN/), mit stets demselben sorgfältig formulierten Satz im "Kleingedruckten": ,Opinions are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the American Physical Society, but they should be." Unter dem Oberbegriff Voodoo - der im Englischen nicht nur für den Zauberkult Wodu, sondern für Zauberei und Hexerei aller Art steht - fasst Park alles zusammen, was ihm nicht als seriöse Wissenschaft gilt. Er unterscheidet fünf Spielarten von Voodoo-Wissenschaft

Footnote

Rez. in: Spektrum der Wissenschaft 2001, H.3, S.109-110 (H. Genz)

Field

Wissenschaftstheorie

RSWK

Naturwissenschaften / Irrtum / Betrug / Pseudowissenschaft

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