Science and pseudoscience : a conversation with Michael Gordin / Open Agenda Publishing.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • [Toronto, Ontario] : Open Agenda Publishing, [2015]
  • ©2015
Description
1 streaming video file (1 hr., 3 min.) : digital, sound, color + 1 PDF + 1 podcast.

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Available Online

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Interviewee
Interviewer
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Editor
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Series
Ideas Roadshow
Summary note
Princeton historian Michael Gordin discusses the strange case of Immanuel Velikovsky - doctor, psychologist, self-proclaimed historian and would-be revolutionary - as a way of probing the often-problematic boundary between science and pseudoscience.
Notes
Includes MP3 podcast of conversation.
Creation/​Production credits
Director, Howard Burton ; editor, Rowan D. Thubro ; music, Luke Mulholland.
Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
Host, Howard Burton.
Language note
Closed captioned.
Contents
  • Why Velikovsky?
  • Einstein and testability
  • Peer review and objectivity
  • Energy man establishes his domain
  • What is science, anyway?
  • Fringe benefits
  • Better science?
  • Learning from history?
Other title(s)
Ideas Roadshow.
OCLC
909289601
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