Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

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Science, Pseudoscience, and Science Falsely So- Called 303


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  2. Reese, Humbugs of New- York, 111; Holmes, “The Professor at the Breakfast- Table.”

  3. John K. Kane to Joseph Henry, November 20, 1843, in The Papers of Joseph
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  4. George M Sternberg, “Science and Pseudo- Science in Medicine,” Science 5
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  5. Daniel G. Brinton, “The Character and Aims of Scientifi c Investigation,” Sci-
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  6. Augustine F. Hewitt, “The Warfare of Science,” Catholic World 911(1891): 679;
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  7. “The Old and New Phrenology,” The Open Court 1 (1887): 435.

  8. See Frank M. Turner, “The Victorian Confl ict between Science and Religion: A
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  9. B. E. Fernow, “Pseudo- Science in Meteorology,” Science 3 (1896): 706.

  10. “Character in Finger Nails,” New York Times, December 5, 1884.

  11. R. S. Woodward, “Address of the President,” Science 12 (1900): 14.

  12. “Time Wasted,” Science 6 (1897): 969.

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  14. Joseph LeConte, “Rough Notes of a Yosemite Camping Trip—III,” Overland
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  15. Sternberg, “Science and Pseudo- Science in Medicine,” 202.

  16. Woodward, “Address of the President,” 14.

  17. W. H. Mallock, “Civilization and Equality,” Contemporary Review 40 (1881): 660;
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  18. Edward A. Ross, “Social Control,” American Journal of Sociology 1 (1896):
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  19. See Thomas Henry Huxley, “Scientifi c and Pseudo- Scientifi c Realism,” Nine-
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    Thomas Henry Huxley, “Science and Pseudo- Science,” Nineteenth Century 21 (1887):
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