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Science Friction
Where the Known Meets the Unknown
Narrated by:
Michael Brant Shermer
Length:
4 hrs and 50 mins
Categories:
Non-fiction,
Psychology & The Mind
Summary
In
Science Friction, best-selling author and
Skeptic magazine publisher Michael Shermer pretends to be a psychic for a day...and fools everyone; as a psychologist and bicycle racer, Shermer reveals the science behind sports psychology; as a historian and evolutionary theorist, Shermer considers what was truly responsible for the mutiny on the
Bounty; and as a son, Shermer explores the possibilities of alternative and experimental medicine for his cancer-ravaged mother. And a skeptic realizes that it is time to turn the skeptical lens onto science itself.
In each of the essays in Science Friction, Shermer explores the very personal barriers and biases that plague and propel science, especially when scientists push against the unknown. What do we know, and what do we not know? How does science respond to controversy, attack, and uncertainty? When does theory become accepted fact?
©2009 Michael Shermer (P)2009 Michael Shermer
Critic reviews
"You may disagree with Michael Shermer, but you'd better have a good reason and you'll have your work cut out finding it." (Richard Dawkins, author of
The God Delusion)
"If your perceptions have ever rubbed you the wrong way, you'll find Science Friction fascinating." (Bill Nye, The Science Guy)
"If your perceptions have ever rubbed you the wrong way, you'll find Science Friction fascinating." (Bill Nye, The Science Guy)
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