FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 336:300-301 January 23, 1997 Number 4 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited Related Article

(Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Vol. 775.) Edited by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis. 591 pp. New York, New York Academy of Sciences, 1996. $95 (cloth); $95 (paper). ISBN 1-57331-002-6 (cloth); 1-57331-003-4 (paper).

During the past 25 years, opposing forces have been waging a battle over the validity of science and the scientific method. This culture war, sometimes pursued with fierce polemics, began in the 1960s with growing resistance to the view that the scientific method is the only source of knowledge — that a statement is meaningful only if it is empirically verifiable. The opponents of science are not just a ragtag band of New Age spiritualists, psychics, and fundamentalists. They are also university scholars who contest empiricism on philosophical, historical, and sociological grounds. Their argument, in broad terms, is that science . . . [Full Text of this Article]

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2010 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.