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Abusing Science: The Case Against CreationismPhilip Kitcher Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983. Pp. x, 213. $6.95

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Brian S. Baigrie
Brian S. Baigrie
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University of Manitoba
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1986 , pp. 588 - 592
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1986

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1 This figure was the result of an opinion survey conducted by NBC News, reported in The New York Times (November 18, 1981). In concert with other polls that show noteworthy decline of confidence in public schools, this figure is best read as à protest to the amount of control held by the experts. See “Opinion Roundup”, Public Opinion (October/November 1981), 23–26.

2 See Follette, Marcel Chotkowski La, ed., Creationism, Science, and the Law: The Arkansas Case (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983), 45–73Google Scholar.

3 Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), 168.Google Scholar