Complicating the conversation: rhetoric, substance, and controversy in parapsychology.(research)

From: The Journal of Parapsychology | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

In my last presidential address presented in NewYork City in August of 2001 (Zingrone, 2002), I talked about the lessons that can be learned from science studies and its examination of controversy in mainstream science, across the boundaries of scientific disciplines, across the boundary between mainstream and marginal science, and within parapsychology itself. In a sense this address is a continuation of that one. Instead of speaking more generally on science studies and parapsychology, I will be narrowing the focus to the rhetoric of science and to the ESP controversy that both ...

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