Perpetual Motion Machines and the Goldbach Conjecture / by Tian Song
《Perpetual Motion Machines and Goldbach’s Conjecture》By Tian Song, Shanghai Science and Technology Press, 2003.11 The most striking manifestation of the current public lack of scientific literacy is how readily people “believe” things; the core of the scientific spirit lies in “doubt”! But I often do not like to bring up this word, because advocating a spirit of “doubt” often leads to misunderstandings. For example, the abuse of doubt. Tian Song’s little book *Perpetual Motion Machines and Goldbach’s Conjecture: Science in the Jianghu* offers many other forms of misunderstanding the scientific spirit—namely, pseudoscience. The prevalence of pseudoscience is also closely related to the direction of public opinion in society. Society has…
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