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This expanded second edition of Scientific Method shows how science works, fails to work, or pretends to work, by looking at examples from physics, biomedicine, psychology, sociology, and economics.

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Science is in trouble. Real questions in desperate need of answers-especially those surrounding ethnicity, gender, climate change, and almost anything related to 'health and safety'-are swiftly buckling to the fiery societal demands of what ought to be rather than what is. These foregone conclusions may be comforting, but each capitulation to modernity's whims threatens the integrity of scientific inquiry. Can true, fact-based discovery be red...

This ground-breaking book presents a brief history of behaviorism, along with a critical analysis of radical behaviorism, its philosophy and its applications to social issues. This third edition is much expanded and includes a new chapter on experimental method as well as longer sections on the philosophy of behaviorism.

Scientific Method demonstrates, through concrete historical examples, the ways in which scientific method is practiced in a range of social science fields.

Remember fifty years ago when everyone smoked?Since tobacco found its way into Europe in the sixteenth century, smoking has been a controversial issue. Fifty years ago, almost everyone smoked, and fifty years before that, smokers were in the doghouse, up until the early twentieth century, cigarettes were illegal in a number of U.S. states.Needless to say, smoking has always been a ready source of revenue. It has also been a source of health co...

John Staddon's entertaining book begins with a brief history of behaviourism and goes on to explain and criticize radical behaviourism, its philosophy and its application to social issues.

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