Scientific IrrationalismIn fewer than two hundred pages, David Stove leaves the well established and widely regarded edifice of the academic philosophy of science in smouldering ruins. This book provides a modern history of scientific reasoning, from David Hume's inductive scepticism to Karl Popper's outright denial of induction, to the increasingly irrational and absurd scientific views that followed. When Popper untethered science from induction, Stove argues, he triggered