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Joel Levy. Professional Hairstyling
CONTENTS
FEATURES
INTRODUCTION
The feudal system
Foibles and mistakes
Nasty, brutish and smart
KELVIN. vs. LYELL, DARWIN, HUXLEY, et al
‘Incomprehensibly vast’
Lord Kelvin objects
Burned fingers
TIMELINE
‘The grandest mill’
The fire within
EVIDENCE FOR THE AGE OF THE EARTH. How do we know how old the Earth is?
WEGENER. vs. JEFFREYS, et al
The shrinking Earth
Scientific adventurer
TIMELINE
Wegener’s theory
The gathering storm
‘And yet it moves’
WILLIAMS. vs. CHOUET
Desk jockeys vs volcano jocks
Under the volcano
TIMELINE
Into the valley of death
HUXLEY. vs. WILBERFORCE
Barking and yelping
TIMELINE
OPENING PANDORA’S BOX: THE REACTION TO DARWIN
Monkey business
HOPEFUL MONSTERS: THE PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM DEBATE
INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND CREATIONISM
DAWKINS vs GOD
COPE. vs. MARSH
A palaeontological education
‘See the bones roll out’
TIMELINE
Dirty linen
BONE RUSH
LEAKEY. vs. JOHANSON
Lucy and the footprints
The next generation
HUMAN EVOLUTION TIMELINE
PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: THE MOST CONTENTIOUS SCIENCE
Out of Africa vs Multiregionalism
Mungo Man
KETTLEWELL. vs. HOOPER AND WELLS
Moth man
The truth about Santa
Peppered myth?
PILTDOWN MAN AND THE PREHISTORIC CRICKET BAT
FRAUD IN SCIENCE
Scientific safeguards
Types of fraud
FIEDEL. vs. DILLEHAY
Clovis people
Archaeological bombs
Monte Verde
‘Troubling doubts’
KENNEWICK MAN
SMIT. vs. KELLER
Evidence of impact
TIMELINE
Stratigraphic squabble
Core evidence
JACOB. vs. BROWN, MORWOOD, ROBERTS, et al
Kidnapped!
Scientific terrorists
Cushioned arses and sour grapes
HARVEY. vs. PRIMROSE and RIOLAN
Harvey versus Galen
‘All men as enemies’
The old guard
SCIENCE AND EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE
Crown all other learning
A new philosophy
‘Take nobody’s word for it’
PASTEUR. vs. POUCHET
Eyes on the prize
Subserving the prepossessions
CHICKEN OR EGG?
FAULDS. vs. GALTON and HERSCHEL
‘The scientific identification of criminals’
TIMELINE
A matter for the police
THE MEASURER OF ALL THINGS
FREUD. vs. ADLER
TIMELINE
Original gangster
Out of the shadows
PSYCHOANALYST, HEAL THYSELF
Putting the boot in
THE VIENNA SCENE
FREUD. vs. JUNG
‘Altogether remarkable’
Revolt of the egg
TIMELINE
Dark night of the soul
SABIN. vs. SALK
TIMELINE
‘The dog’s work’
The Cutter Incident
VACCINATION CONTROVERSIES
‘Safe without qualifications’
SCIENCE AND THE MEDIA
Sensationalizing science
Scare stories
Frankenstein’s monster
FRANKLIN. vs. WILKINS
Nobody’s assistant
TIMELINE
‘The best place for a feminist’
THE MISSING NOBEL
MONTAGNIER. vs. GALLO
The hunt for HIV
TIMELINE
Truth and consequences
AFRICAN AIDS CONTROVERSIES
SCIENCE AND POLITICS
VENTER. vs. THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
Skimming the cream
TIMELINE
THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
Pizza treaty
TYCHO. vs. URSUS
‘Long-nosed Ursus’
GALILEO. vs. POPE URBAN
‘The pertinacity of the asp’
TIMELINE
HAS THE CHURCH BEEN HARD DONE BY?
Ventured to meddle
SCIENCE AND THE CHURCH
Steeped in blood
The Book of Nature
Modern tensions
NEWTON. vs. FLAMSTEED
‘For their advantage & your reputation’
TIMELINE
The star catalogue
WAS NEWTON PSYCHOTIC?
NEWTON vs HOOKE
NEWTON. vs. LEIBNIZ
‘The labour of thought’
TIMELINE
Newton’s lost children
WHAT IS CALCULUS?
WALLACE. vs. HAMPDEN
Parallax and the Old Bedford Level
A matter of perspective
FLAT EARTH THEORIES
WALLACE AND SPIRITUALISM
WAGERS IN SCIENCE
‘To encourage the inquiry’
‘A friendly wager’
Betting on disaster
TESLA. vs. EDISON
TESLA THE ELECTRIC SORCERER
‘American humour’
The wire’s fatal grasp
TOPSY THE BAD ELEPHANT
HOYLE. vs. RYLE
In the beginning
TIMELINE
Collapsing theory
BIG BANG BUST-UP
THE ARCHAEOPTERYX AFFAIR
FRINGE SCIENCE
Occult forces
Beyond the fringe
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
