When Science and Beliefs Collide

摘要

Raymond Eve first became interest-ed in alternative ways of thinking about science when he read about a chicago woman who ties knots in her electric cords to reduce her monthly utility bill. . Since then, this social psychologist at the University of Texas at Arlington has collected a series of equally fanciful anecdotes. They include the woman who concluded that NASA faked pictures of the moon landings. Because her television couldn't receive signals transmitted by stations in New York, she reasoned that it certainly hadn't picked up live broadcasts from the moon.