This is a soc-sci book, concerned in general with demarcation issues in
science. Demarcation means distinguishing between, e.g., science and
pseudoscience, or between different areas of science. The former is dealt with
with creationism as a case study, while "cold fusion" is taken as an example
of the latter, i.e. chemists vs physicists. That chapter is however a little
less sharply focussed and could well be seen as more science vs pseudoscience.
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