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Introduction: Engineering and the Truth Fairies |
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Section 1 |
Humanistic Religion: The Rush to Embrace Darwinism |
9 |
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Science, Religion, and Logic |
11 |
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Darwinism and the New Order |
13 |
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The Triumph of the Enlightenment |
13 |
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The Original in "Origins": Something for Everyone |
14 |
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A Cultural Monopoly |
16 |
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Sweeping Claims--and Reservations |
17 |
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By Scaffolding to the Moon |
17 |
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Rocks of Ages--The Fossil Record |
19 |
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Slow-Motion Miracles. The Doctrine of Gradualism |
19 |
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Life's Upside-Down Tree: The First Failed Prediction |
21 |
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Flights of Fancy: The Birds Controversy |
25 |
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Lines of Horses |
27 |
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Keeping Naturalism Pure: Orthogenesis Wars |
30 |
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Anything, Everything, and Its Opposite: Natural Selection |
31 |
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Dissent in the Ranks: Logical Fallacy and Tautology |
31 |
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Moth Myths. The Crowning Proof? |
33 |
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The Origin of Originality? Genetics and Mutation |
34 |
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Recombination: Answering the Wrong Question |
34 |
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Random Mutation: Finally, The Key to New Things Under the Sun |
35 |
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An Automated Manufacturing City |
36 |
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The Blind Gunman: A Long, Hard Look at the Odds |
38 |
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But it Happened! Science or Faith? |
40 |
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Life as Information Processing |
41 |
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Evolution Means Accumulating Information |
41 |
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Bacterial Immunity Claims: A False Information Economy |
42 |
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More Bacteria Tales: Directed Mutation |
44 |
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And So, Back to Finches |
44 |
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Confronting the Unthinkable |
45 |
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Intelligence at Work? The Crux of It All |
46 |
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Darwin's Black Box Opened: Biochemistry's Irreducible Complexity |
47 |
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Acknowledging the Alternative: Intelligent Design |
50 |
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Is Design Detectable? |
52 |
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Philosophers' Fruit-Machine Fallacy |
54 |
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Testing for Intelligence |
54 |
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Section Notes |
58 |
Section 2 |
Of Bangs and Braids: Cosmology's Mathematical Abstractions |
61 |
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Mathematical Worlds--and This Other One |
63 |
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Cosmologies as Mirrors |
63 |
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Matters of Gravity: Relativity's Universes |
65 |
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An Aside on Spectra and Redshifts |
66 |
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A Universe in the Red and Lemaitre's Primeval Atom |
67 |
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After the Bomb: The Birth of the Bang |
69 |
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Gamow's Nuclear Pressure-Cooker |
69 |
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Hoyle and Supernovas as "Little Bang" Element Factories |
71 |
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The Steady-State Theory |
72 |
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The Cosmic Background Radiation: News but Nothing New |
73 |
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Quasar and Smoothness Enigmas: Enter, the Mathematicians |
75 |
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The Plasma Universe |
78 |
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Hannes Alfven, the Pioneer: Cosmic Cyclotrons |
78 |
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The Solar System as a Faraday Generator |
80 |
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A Skater's Waltz Among the Planets |
81 |
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Solar System to Galaxy |
83 |
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Peratt's Models and Simulations: Galaxies in the Laboratory |
84 |
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An Explanation for X-ray Flashes |
85 |
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Eric Lerner and the Plasma Focus |
86 |
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Going All the Way: Galaxies to the Universe |
88 |
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Older Than the Big Bang |
89 |
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Other Ways of Making Light Elements |
90 |
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And of Producing Expansion |
91 |
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Redshift Without Expansion at All |
93 |
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Molecular Hydrogen: The Invisible Energy-Absorber |
93 |
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The Ultimate Heresy |
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Questioning the Hubble Law |
95 |
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Halton Arp's Quasar Counts |
95 |
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Taking on an Established Church |
98 |
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Eyes Closed and Eyes Open: Professionals and Amateurs |
101 |
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Quasar Cascades: Redshifts as a Measure of Galaxy Age |
102 |
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What Happens to the Distances? |
104 |
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What Causes Redshift? Machian Physics and the Generalization of GRT |
105 |
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The God of the Modern Creation Myth |
108 |
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Section Notes |
110 |
Section 3 |
Drifting in the Ether: Did Relativity Take A Wrong Turn? |
111 |
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Some Basics |
115 |
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Reference Frames and Transforms |
115 |
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Inertial Frames |
116 |
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Extending Classical Relativity |
117 |
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Problems with Electrodynamics |
117 |
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Maxwell's Constant Velocity |
119 |
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Michelson, Morley, and the Ether That Wasn't |
121 |
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Lorentz's Transforms for Electromagnetics |
123 |
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The New Relativity |
124 |
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Einstein: Transforming All of Physics |
124 |
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Relativity's Weird Results |
126 |
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Unifying Physics |
128 |
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Dissident Viewpoints |
130 |
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Elegant, Yes. But Is It Really Useful? |
130 |
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Lorentz's Ether Revisited |
131 |
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Entraining the Ether |
133 |
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Field-Referred Theories |
135 |
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Electromagnetic Mass: Increase Without Einstein |
137 |
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Gravity and Electromagnetics |
140 |
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Does "Time" Dilate? Or Do Clocks Run Slower? |
143 |
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The Famous Faster-Than-Light Question |
145 |
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Section Notes |
150 |
Section 4 |
Catastrophe of Ethics: The Case for Taking Velikovsky Seriously |
151 |
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Early Work: The Makings of an Iconoclast |
154 |
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How It All Began: A Small Question About the Exodus |
154 |
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Implications of Catastrophism |
158 |
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Venus and the Cosmic Connection |
159 |
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The Universal War God: Mars |
163 |
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Worlds in Collision |
164 |
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The End of Everything You Thought You Knew |
164 |
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Science in Convulsion: The Reactions |
168 |
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Testimony from the Rocks: Earth in Upheaval |
173 |
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The Fossil Graveyards |
173 |
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Earthmoving and Excavation |
174 |
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Orthodoxy in Confusion |
175 |
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Embarrassing Confirmations |
175 |
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More Electrical Heresies: Charges and Counter-Charges |
178 |
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A New View of Planets: Violent Origins; Rapid Change |
179 |
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Rejected Call for Reappraisal |
181 |
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The Planets Speak, Regardless |
184 |
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Slaying the Monster: The AAAS Velikovsky Symposium, 1974 |
188 |
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A Glimpse of the Ground Rules |
189 |
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Only the Data That's Fit to Print: The Venus Tablets |
193 |
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Pronouncements from the Celestial Heights |
197 |
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Carl Sagan: The Star Billing |
200 |
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Sagan on Astronomy |
201 |
Problem 1. |
The Ejection of Venus by Jupiter |
201 |
Problem 2. |
Repeated Collisions Among the Earth, Venus, And Mars |
203 |
Problem 3. |
The Earth's Rotation |
204 |
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Sagan on Terrestrial and Lunar Geology |
205 |
Problem 4. |
Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters |
205 |
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Sagan on Planetary Biology and Chemistry |
207 |
Problem 5. |
Chemistry & Biology of the Terrestrial Planets |
207 |
Problem 6. |
Manna |
211 |
Problem 7. |
The Clouds of Venus |
212 |
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Sagan on Planetary Physics and Surfaces |
214 |
Problem 8. |
The Temperature of Venus |
214 |
Problem 9. |
The Craters of Venus |
218 |
Problem 10. |
The Circularization of the Orbit of Venus |
219 |
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After the Inquisition: The Parallel Universe |
220 |
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Section Notes |
223 |
Section 5 |
Environmentalist Fantasies: Politics and Ideology Masquerading As Science |
225 |
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Garbage In, Gospel Out |
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Computer Games and Global Warming |
231 |
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A Comfortable Natural Greenhouse |
232 |
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Twiddling with Models |
233 |
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Meanwhile, in the Real World... |
234 |
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But the 0.5[degree]C Net Rise Is Still There: If the CO[subscript 2] Increase Didn't Do It, What Did? |
238 |
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Global Greening |
243 |
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The Bandwagon Rolls Regardless |
245 |
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How the Real Scientists Feel |
247 |
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Holes in the Ozone Logic: But Timely for Some |
248 |
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Ozone Basics |
249 |
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The Depletion Controversy |
251 |
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Creating Catastrophe: The Wizards of Ozone |
256 |
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A Few Coincidences |
258 |
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Saving The Mosquitoes: The War On DDT |
262 |
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Some Background Intelligence: Malaria |
262 |
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Opening Assault: Silent Spring |
266 |
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The Offensive Develops |
269 |
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The 1971 EPA Hearings |
271 |
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Well-Designed, Well-Executed Experiments: DDT as a Carcinogen |
271 |
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A Plague of Birds |
276 |
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Cracking Open the Eggshell Claims |
278 |
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Everywhere, and Indestructible |
282 |
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The Scientists' Findings and the Administrator's Ruling |
284 |
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"Vitamin R": Radiation Good for Your Health |
286 |
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Radiation Phobia |
286 |
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"The Dose Makes the Poison": Hormesis |
287 |
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Rip-Out Rip-Off: The Asbestos Racket |
292 |
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Asbestos and the WTC Towers |
292 |
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Insulated from Reality |
293 |
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Makers and Takers |
295 |
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Section Notes |
297 |
Section 6 |
Closing Ranks: AIDS Heresy In The Viricentric Universe |
301 |
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An Industry Out of Work |
304 |
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Storm-Cloud Over the Parade |
306 |
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Anatomy of an Epidemic |
309 |
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Questioning the Infectious Theory |
310 |
(1) |
The microbe must be found in all cases of the disease |
312 |
(2) |
The microbe must be isolated from the host and grown in a pure culture |
312 |
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The microbe must be capable of reproducing the original disease when introduced into a susceptible host |
313 |
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The microbe must be found present in the host so infected |
313 |
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Science by Press Conference |
313 |
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Biology's Answer to Dark Matter? The Virus That Isn't There |
315 |
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An Epidemic of AIDS Testing |
318 |
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Testing for What? |
319 |
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Biotechnology's Xerox Machine |
320 |
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The Export Industry: Africa and Asia |
321 |
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"Side Effects" Just Like AIDS: The Miracle Drugs |
324 |
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Liquid Plumber: AZT |
324 |
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Protease Inhibitors. Hype Uninhibited |
326 |
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A Virus Fixation |
328 |
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Section Notes |
330 |
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Afterword: Gothic Cathedrals and the Stars |
331 |
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Section Notes |
340 |
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References & Further Reading |
341 |
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Index |
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List of Illustrations |
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1.1 |
The "Tree of Life" as envisioned in a Victorian textbook |
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1.2 |
Increase in the number of animal phyla with time |
23 |
1.3 |
Binary Decision Tree |
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2.1 |
Spectra: continuous and line |
67 |
2.2 |
Simulation of plasma currents |
85 |
2.3 |
The radio galaxy Cygnus A |
87 |
2.4 |
Galaxy and quasar counts by apparent magitude |
97 |
2.5 |
Quasar pair straddling Seyfert galaxy |
100 |
2.6 |
Nucleus of Seyfert galaxy Seyfert galaxy NGC4151 |
102 |
2.7 |
Quantization of galactic redshifts |
105 |
3.1 |
Field lines around stationary and moving charges |
138 |
3.2 |
Terrestrial magnetosphere and hierarchy of magnetospheres |
142 |
4.1 |
Velikovskian orbits |
186 |
4.2 |
Babylonian Innana symbols |
194 |
5.1 |
Atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last 400 years |
235 |
5.2 |
U.S. and global temperature variations |
236 |
5.3 |
Predictions of greenhouse models versus observed values |
239 |
5.4 |
Temperature variations with solar activity for the last 250 years |
240 |
5.5 |
Climate record for the last 3,000 years |
242 |
5.6 |
Natural sources of chlorine compared to production of CFCs |
254 |
5.7 |
EPA version of ozone trends compared to natural cycle |
257 |
5.8 |
Ultraviolet flux. Nonexistent trend created by skewed data |
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