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Prof. Bauer discusses the rise of scientism (belief that science will solve all problems), the misconceptions concerning the scientific method, the domination of our current scientific culture by dogma , and the dire effects of these problems on our lives and societies. He also discussed how to move back towards a more open and reality based scientific process.
Henry H. Bauer
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Science Studies
Dean Emeritus of Arts & Sciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Website:
http://henryhbauer.homestead.com/
Selected Professional Activities
Center for Scientific Anomalies Research (consultant); International Society of Cryptozoology (charter member);
National Association of Scholars; Society for Scientific Exploration (founding member; sometime councilor; Editor-
in-Chief, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2000-2007); Virginia Association of Scholars (editor, Virginia Scholar;
1993-99; sometime president, South-West Virginia chapter); Board of Directors, Rethinking AIDS (2009-)
Selected Honors & Awards
Sydney S. Negus Memorial Lecturer, Virginia Academy of Science, 1984; Honored Companion, Loch Ness
Explorers, 1978; Visiting Professor, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1974; University of Kentucky
Research Foundation Award, 1974; Australia-America Foundation travel grant, 1965; Fulbright post-doctoral travel
grant, 1956; [Australia, University of Sydney]: C.S.I.R.O. fellowship, 1952-54; Frank Dixon Scholarship in Chemistry
(1951), Commonwealth Scholarship (1951), University Bursary and Exhibition (1948-50)
His writings include:
KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES AND RESEARCH CARTELS: SCIENCE AND MEDICINE GONE WRONG
MS in preparation
THE ORIGIN, PERSISTENCE AND FAILINGS OF HIV/AIDS THEORY
Jefferson (NC): McFarland 2007
FATAL ATTRACTIONS: THE TROUBLES WITH SCIENCE
New York: Paraview Press 2001
SCIENTIFIC LITERACY AND THE MYTH OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1992, ix + 180 pp.; 2nd printing 1992
In Cassette Book format, RC 35437, narrated by K. D. Henry, 1992
Paperback edition, 1994
