Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? [antikvár]

Introduction ost of the chapters in this collection are attacks on far-out cases of pseudoscience. I am aware of the difficulties involving what philosophers of science call the "demarcation problem"—the task of formulating sharp criteria for distinguishing good science from bad. Clearly no such criteria are precise. Pseudoscience is a fuzzy word that refers to a vague portion of a continuum on which there are no sharp boundaries. At the far left end of this spectrum are beliefs which all scientists consider preposterous. Examples include claims that the earth is a hollow sphere and we occupy its interior, that the earth was created in six literal days about ten thousand years ago, and that positions of stars correlate with character and future events. Moving to the right, toward slightly less weird