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    What is pseudoscience?

    Dec 02, 2021 3 minutes

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    On the Fringe

    Where Science Meets Pseudoscience

    Michael D Gordin

    Oxford University Press 2021

    Hb, 120pp, £14.99, ISBN 9780197555767

    “Pseudoscience is not a real thing.” As opening lines go, that’s quite a provocation. With eye-catching flair, historian of science Michael D Gordin is establishing a definition that pseudoscience is a negative category, not a term anyone would identify with themselves. To Gordin it is a term completely interlinked with science, so much so that one cannot exist without the other. In , he explores their intertwining, attempting to define what a pseudoscience is (and was) and how a history of pseudoscience brings out a history of science, too.

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