Elmhurst College Honors Program Welcomes You

HON-404 Senior Honors Seminar

Fall, 2001 - William Hirstein (Philosophy) & Earl C. Swallow (Physics)



Basic Course Materials and Resources

EC Library
Elmhurst College Writing Center Home Page
Web Teacher Tutorial - learning to use the web

General Course Description
HON 404-01 Senior Honors Seminar
Theme: Science and Pseudoscience: In Search of Reliable Knowledge

Students write a capstone paper incorporating research on a special topic. Each student is encouraged to invite a faculty member with expertise in their area to serve as an outside advisor on the paper. Progress on the papers is shared and discussed with other seminar members in relationship to the seminar theme and to some assigned readings.

TENTATIVE Date & Time: Tuesday, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Instructors: William Hirstein (Philosophy)
Earl C. Swallow (Physics)


Some "Skeptical" Links
Galileo Project
James Randi Educational Foundation
Free Inquiry
What's New Archives
Quantifying Risk and Radiation
Celebrity Atheist List
Bibliography of Skeptical Works on the Occult, Magic, Witchcraft, etc.
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims Of the Paranormal(CSICOP)
Skeptical Enquirer (published by CSICOP)
Society for Scientific Exploration and their Journal of Scientific Exploration
Web Directory of Pseudoscience Skepticism - LOTS of Links with Some Commentary
Cincinnati Skeptics
Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking (PhACT)
Free Energy or Snake Oil? (USA Today -- Dennis Lee & Better World Technology)
Erik Kreig's page on Dennis Lee and Better World Technology
When to Be Suspicious
Pseudoscience Fact Sheets
Prof. Victor J. Stenger (Skeptical Pages, Univ. of Hawaii, Physics)
Pseudoscience Examples
Low Level EMFs [in APS What's New] [Faked Data] [Links] [Q&A]
Carl Sagan
T-Files

Some "Pseudoscience" Links
Free Energy
NW Rage
Pseudoscience and Quackery in Central Texas
Guru's Web Links to Pseudoscience Sites
Cult Archaeology
Alternative Science


Climate Change Issues
Science and Politics of Climate (Freeman Dyson in APS News)
Greening Earth Society (sponsored by Western Fuels Assn.)
US Global Change Research Project
EPA Global Warming Site
National Geographic Global Climate
Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Scientific & Professional Societies:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society (APS)
Institute of Physics (IOP)
National Academy of Sciences
New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society



More to come!

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 Rev. 09/03/2001. - - Comments and suggestions to Earl C. Swallow .