The course will take the form of lectures one evening a week at Fysikum, Stockholm University. It is arranged in cooperation between the Department of Physics, Stockholm University and the Division of Philosophy, KTH.
The lectures comprising the course are held by specialists in different fields. The following is a preliminary list of lecture themes:
- What is science?
- Distinguishing between science and pseudoscience
- How we can be duped by chance
- Being critical of one's sources
- Peer review
- Evolution - how do we know it took place?
- The arguments of creationism
- Clinical testing
- Quackery and medical science
- Big Bang - What can we know?
- Perpetuum mobile - Can we know it is impossible?
- Physics and mysticism
- Astrology, a critical appraisal
- Dowsing, a critical appraisal
- How to fake - on fakes and pseudoscience
- Science in mass media