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PHYS 192 - Science and Pseudoscience
Last offered Fall 2015
Official Description
Extra-sensory perception, alien abduction, and psychic crime-solving from the standpoint of scientific inquiry and exploration; the scientific method, how science progresses, and the types of argumentative fallacies that pervade the pseudoscientific community; examples of good science and how the scientific method is self-correcting.
Texts
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Pbk.). 2001. Oxford University Press (recommended)
| Title | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Science and Pseudoscience | A | 54434 | LEC | 1 | 1600 - 1720 | M | 158 Loomis Laboratory | Kevin Pitts |