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050		4	_aBD225 -- .C64 2015eb
082	0		_a121
100	1		_aCohen, Martin.
245	1	0	_aParadigm Shift : _bHow Expert Opinions Keep Changing on Life, the Universe, and Everything.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aLuton, Bedfordshire : _bAndrews UK Ltd., _c2015.
264		4	_c©2015.
300			_a1 online resource (273 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aCover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Introduction -- How to use this book -- Body matter -- Part I -- 1. Tales of Mice and Men -- 2. Discarding Fossilized Theories -- 3. The Brain Doctors -- 4. Inexplicable Diseases -- 5. Inexplicable Cures -- Part II -- 6. Physics' Guilty Secrets -- 7. Black Holes, God Particles, and Bombast -- 8. Spooky Coincidences and Amazing Insights -- Part III -- 9. Bubbles, Black Swans, and Banking Disasters -- 10. Climate Science and the Profits of Doom -- 11. The Risk Factor -- 12. African Art or High Street Kitsch? -- Afterword: Paradigm Shifts -- Back matter -- Notes and Key Sources -- About the Author -- Also available.
520			_aWhy do giraffes have long necks? It can't really be for reaching tasty leaves since their main food is ground level bushes, tidy though that explanation would be. And how does relativity theory cope with the fact that the observable universe defies prediction by being far too small and anything but homogeneous? By inventing a vastly larger, but invisible, universe. And what exactly should we make of the scientists who claim to be witnessing thought itself, when the changes of blood flow in the brain that they observe are a thousand times slower than the neuronal activity it is supposed to reveal? A little scepticism is in order. Yet if philosophers of science, from Thomas Kuhn to Paul Feyerabend, have argued that science is a more haphazard process, driven by political fashion and short-term economic self-interest, today almost everyone seems to assume it is a vast jigsaw of interlocking facts pieced slowly but steadily together by expert practitioners. In this witty but profound 2.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aParadigm (Theory of knowledge).
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aCohen, Martin _tParadigm Shift _dLuton, Bedfordshire : Andrews UK Ltd.,c2015 _z9781845407940
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4393934 _zClick to View
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