High frontiers in science.

• Author: Doherty, Brian
• Position: 'Groovy Science' ed. by David Kaiser and W. Patrick McCray - Briefly Noted - Brief article - Book review

The counterculture of the 1960s and'70s summoned by the word groovy is saddled with a reputation as overly mystical and viewingsciencewith suspicion. A wonderfully varied new anthology--Groovy Science (University of Chicago Press), edited by David Kaiser and W. Patrick McCray--demonstrates that hippies in fact brought science and technology to bear in theirown ways, fortheirown goals.

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Some of those ways are still mere curiosities, like physician John Lilly's attempts to talkto high dolphins and psychiatrist immanuel Velikovsky's hugely popular attempts to rewrite standard...