In this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseudoscience (pretend science) and anti-science (open hostility to science). Pseudoscience romps in the shadows of science but takes on the guise of science to excite, sell, mislead, and deceive the public. Anti-science denigrates, even denies, findings of science for ideological ends.
In this dangerous age of misinformation (and dis-information), we need science-s remarkable truth-seeking tools more than ever to help counter society-s crazier impulses in which opinion, beliefs, and lies trump facts, evidence, and truth.
In one sense, Shadows of Science is Frazier-s love letter to science, one of humanity-s greatest inventions, one we should exalt for its unique ability to find provisional truths about nature. In congenial prose he reports on recent discoveries and describes ho
