Physics 199ESP Syllabus (Spring 2008)
Course outline
- Introduction and Overview
- Scientific Knowledge
- Modern Views
- Skepticism and cynicism
- How science works
- observation, hypothesis testing
- self-correction
- Bad science
- Pseudoscience
Interleaved throughout the semester, we will include
- dicussions of science and society
- discussions on how technology and science benefit one another
Text
- The text for this course is: "Voodoo Science: The Road From
Foolishness to Fraud" by Robert Park
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