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The Construction of the Paranormal: Nothing Unscientific is Happening

by Henry M Collins, Trevor J Pinch
On the Margins of Science the Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge (1979)

Abstract

Discuss the sociological resoning behind the scientific ignoring of parapsychology and how parapsychology has tried to counteract this rejection. Classic quote from the text is: "... the best of modern pararpsychology comprises some of the most rigourously controlled and methodologically sophisiticated work in the sciences."

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