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Culture, history and society

Culture, history and society

Ever felt your ordinary human experience is being delegitimized? It’s the fault of ‘scientific gaslighters’

30 Nov 2022 Robert P Crease

Robert P Crease objects to those who claim – often in popular-science books – that science is the one and only road to reality

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Key ingredient It’s not bad to think the Earth is stationary – in fact, it’s a vital precondition if we are to develop a sense of movement and to model ourselves on a moving Earth. (Courtesy: iStock/RyanJLane)
In the 1944 movie Gaslight, the character Paula (played by Ingrid Bergman) sees a gas-powered lamp i

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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