On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience

First edition, first impression.  viii, 122pp.  Blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles on the spine.  Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Glossy dust wrapper, just a little bumped on extreme edges.  

Pseudoscience – something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven is a widely used term. . Many would classify astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy and creationism as pseudoscience, and eugenics comes to mind for some.  But defining what makes these fields “pseudo” is complex. Given the virulence of contemporary disputes over, for  instance, climate change denial  and anti-vaccination movements, Gordin argues the need to better understand issues of scientific demarcation, and sets out to achieve that.