Is Scientology Science Fiction?

“But Is It Science Fiction?”: Science Fiction and a Theory of Genre

If science fiction is a genre, then attempts to think about the nature of science fiction will be affected by one’s understanding of what genres are. I shall examine two approaches to genre, one (genres as regions of conceptual space) dominant but inadequate, the other (genres as historical particulars) better, but only occasionally making itself seen. I shall then discuss several important, in...

Is Cognitive Case Formulation Science or Science Fiction?

Since the seminal publication of Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (A. T. Beck, 1976), cognitive therapy has emerged as one of the most popular and widely taught therapeutic modalities of the last 20 years (Rush & Beck, 2000), because, in part, of its consistency with the scientistpractitioner model. Although the scientist-practitioner model has been controversial (Albee, 1970; Barl...

Fiction informed by science.

Why Vortex Lattice Melting Theory is Science Fiction

The distinguished work by A.A. Abrikosov awarded of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2003 not only has determined the orientation of all investigations of the mixed state of type II superconductors during forty years but also has provoked a mass delusion. Most scientists consider the Abrikosov state first of all as a vortex lattice. But Abrikosov has found a periodic lattice structure with crysta...

Science Fiction and Macdonald's Polynomials

This work studies the remarkable relationships that hold among certain m-tuples of the Garsia-Haiman modules M and corresponding elements of the Macdonald basis. We recall that in 10], M is deened for a partition`n, as the linear span of derivatives of a certain bihomogeneouspolynomial (x; y) in the variables x 1 ; x 2 conjecturedin 6], 10] that M has n! dimensionsand that its bigraded Frobeniu...