Thursday, 19 May 2016

The Holy Grail of Crackpot Filtering: How the arXiv decides what�s science � and what�s not.



Where do we draw the boundary between science and pseudoscience? It�s is a question philosophers have debated for as long as there�s been science � and last time I looked they hadn�t made much progress. When you ask a sociologist their answer is normally a variant of: Science is what scientists do. So what do scientists do?
You might have heard that scientists use what�s called the scientific


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