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  • SCIENTIFIC BABEL
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    SCIENTIFIC BABEL
    MICHAEL D. GORDIN
    English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over t...

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  • HOW REASON ALMOST LOST ITS MIND
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    HOW REASON ALMOST LOST ITS MIND
    PAUL ERICKSON / JUDY L. KLEIN / LORRAINE DASTON / REBECCA LEMOV / THOMAS STURM / MICHAEL D. GORDIN
    In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participan...

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  • THE PSEUDOSCIENCE WARS
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    THE PSEUDOSCIENCE WARS
    MICHAEL D. GORDIN
    Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling into solar orbit as Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor.   Sound implausible? Well, from 1950 until the late 1970s, a huge numb...

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