Issue 8 (2018)

Issue 8 (2018)
MAKING SCIENCE: A MULTITUDE OF PERSPECTIVES
Mètode Science Studies Journal - Volume 8 (2018)

Op-Ed articles

Editorial
Martí Domínguez
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Challenges and difficulties for a Vice-Principal for Research
Carlos Hermenegildo
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Towards a new biological science of language
Jaume Bertranpetit
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Documentary texts

The role of the brain in financial decisions: A viewpoint on neuroeconomics
Guillermo Mateu, Lucas Monzani, Roger Muñoz Navarro
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Nature as a political question: Alexander von Humboldt and power networks
Bernat Lladó i Mas
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The millennium problems. Challenges to further mathematics

Old mathematical challenges: Precedents to the millennium problems
Sergio Segura de León
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The Riemann hypothesis: The great pending mathematical challenge
Pilar Bayer
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Navier-Stokes equations: Unpredictability even without butterflies?
Xavier Mora
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The Hodge conjecture: The complications of understanding the shape of geometric spaces
Vicente Muñoz Velázquez
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Poincaré conjecture: A problem solved after a century of new ideas and continued work
María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz
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Sapiens. In the path of the human being

Evolution of the ‘Homo’ genus: New mysteries and perspectives
Jordí Agustí
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History and reality of the genus ‘Homo’: What is it and why do we think so?
Ian Tattersall
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A brief history of palaeogenomics: How a young discipline revolutionised the study of the past
Carles Lalueza-Fox
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Out of Africa: An alternative scenario for the first human dispersal in Eurasia
Jordí Agustí, David Lordkipanidze
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‘Homo sapiens’: who are we? Essential traits of our species
Eudald Carbonell, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Robert Sala
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The seed of 'La Evolución': The development of human palaeontology in Spain in recent decades
Antonio Rosas
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The scam of pseudoscience

How connected are the major forms of irrationality? An analysis of pseudoscience, science denial, fact resistance and alternative facts
Sven Ove Hansson
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Whence pseudoscience? An epidemiological approach
Stefaan Blancke, Maarten Boudry, Johan Braeckman
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From creationism to economics: How far should analyses of pseudoscience extend?
Taner Edis
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Dismantling the rhetoric of alternative medicine: Smokescreens, errors, conspiracies, and follies
Edzard Ernst, Angelo Fasce
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Pseudoscience and bad science in biomedicine: Analysis of evidence, health risks, and media dissemination
Gonzalo Casino
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Divan couches and gurus: The origin and dangers of clinical pseudopsychology
Angelo Fasce
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The appeal-to-nature fallacy: Homeopathy and biodynamic agriculture in official EU regulations
José Miguel Mulet
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Aircraft clouds: From chemtrail pseudoscience to the science of contrails
Jordi Mazon, Marcel Costa, David Pino
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To what extent do pseudosciences affect teachers? A look at the mindset of science teachers in training
Jordi Solbes Matarredona, Rafael Palomar Fons, María Consuelo Domínguez Sales
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How to be a critical but reasonable debater: Suggestions for critically addressing pseudoscientists and other similar groups
Jesús Alcolea Banegas
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Narrating health. Literature and medicine

Vacation stories: Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s fiction
Susana Collado-Vázquez, Jesús María Carrillo
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Literature in medical teaching: The crucial importance of literature in the education of medical students
Josep Eladi Baños, Elena Guardiola
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Virginia Woolf: Between writing and disease
Josep Ballester-Roca, Noelia Ibarra-Rius
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A science fiction implant: Organ transplants in literature
Xavier Duran
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Guilt, daily life, and love: AIDS narratives in the time of triple therapies
Karen Poe Lang
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Death and literature: Different approaches, from simplicity to obscurity
John Skelton
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Sanatoriums in contemporary narratives: ‘The sea’, by Blai Bonet
Adéla Koťátková
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