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James Franklin

James Franklin is the author of The Science of Conjectue: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal (Johns Hopkins).

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Science and self-image (Books) , February 2013, 63
A review of Galileo by John L. Heilbron

Science wars: last round? (Books) , May 2011, 68
A review of Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed?: A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science (Nonlinear Science) by Richard C Brown

The postmodern calculus (Notebook) , September 2010, 76
On spurious sociologies & the threat they pose to science.

Life & left-handedness (Books) , December 2006, 67
On Martin Gardner's The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry & Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings.

Reasonable science (Books) , November 2003, 70
A review of Defending Science -” Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism, by Susan Haack.

Too many universes (Books) , September 2003, 68
A review of Are Universes Thicker than Blackberries, by Martin Gardner.

Prime problem (Books) , April 2003, 82
A review of Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire.

Big science (Books) , January 2003, 73
A review of A New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram

Spheres and cubes (Books) , February 2002, 72
A review of Mathematical Mountaintops, by John L. Casti.

Thomas Kuhn's irrationalism (Features) , June 2000, 29

Last bastion of reason (Books) , May 2000, 74

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Benghazi vs. AP vs. IRS—why the last may be biggest of the Obama administration's scandals. http://t.co/NZpWXoRmBS Wed, 22 May 2013

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