A first indication of an illusion of knowledge in science exposing the future is obvious: Scientific studies about the future are characterized by a huge variety in outcomes.
Take a man trained in natural science, expose him to eastern religions and to West Coast therapy and, in the hands of Ron Kurtz, the result was Hakomi.
The photographs capture a giddy faux-science, exposing the effects of creatures and chemicals in new environments without probing for answers.
It is science (galactic rays) that transformed the four into Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing, and it is science that exposed them to those rays.
Part of the answer, he suggests, is to emphasise the qualitative over the quantitative: business schools should teach financial history before risk-modelling.He welcomes the eclipse of such cod science, now exposed as useless in times of great upheaval.
Almost 200 years after Jefferson had cryptically parried accusations of the affair with the words "the man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies", science had exposed the facts that a mixture of prejudice and politics had kept hidden.
Science has exposed a thriving academic black market in China involving shady agencies, corrupt scientists, and compromised editors many of them operating in plain view.
They include actively recruiting students, broadening the scope of early coursework to include the wider applications of computer science and exposing students to successful female role models.
Poundstone, a science writer, exposes the workings of Google's notoriously selective human-resources machine, "People Ops," tasked with evaluating the "mental flexibility" and "entrepreneurial potential" of job candidates.
