Henry Bauer

Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Science Studies
Dean Emeritus of Arts & Sciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
(“VPI”, “VPI&SU”, “Virginia Tech”)

1306 Highland Circle
Blacksburg VA 24060-5623
(540) 951-2107
hhbauer@vt.edu
www.henryhbauer.homestead.com
blog: http://hivskeptic.wordpress.com/

Born 16 November 1931 in Vienna (Austria)
Resident of Australia 1939-56 & 1958-65; Australian citizen 1945-69
Resident of U.S.A. 1956-58 & 1965-date; U.S. citizen since 1969
Married. Children: Helen Codron, Judy Bauer

Education

• The Sydney Boys’ High School (Dux, 1947)
• Degrees from The University of Sydney (all in chemistry):
  B.Sc.(1st class honours) 1952; M.Sc. 1953; Ph.D. 1956
• Postdoctoral, University of Michigan, 1956-58

Institutional Affiliations

1978-99 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University: Professor of Chemistry & Science Studies;

1993-99 Editor, Virginia Scholar; http://filebox.vt.edu/faculty/aaup/index4.html

1978-86, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences

1979 Founding member, Center for the Study of Science in Society

1966-78 University of Kentucky: Professor (Associate Professor, 1966-69), Department of Chemistry

Summer 1974, Rikagaku Kenkyusho (Tokyo):
Visiting Professor, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

1972-73, University of Southampton: Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry

1965-66 University of Michigan: Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemistry

1958-65 The University of Sydney: Lecturer to Senior Lecturer, Department of Agricultural Chemistry

Selected Professional Activities

Board of Directors, Rethinking AIDS (2009-); Society for Scientific Exploration (founding member; sometime councilor; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2000-2007); Virginia Association of Scholars (editor, Virginia Scholar; 1993-99; sometime president, South-West Virginia chapter); International Society of Cryptozoology (charter member)

Books

• KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES AND RESEARCH CARTELS: SCIENCE AND MEDICINE GONE WRONG
  MS seeking a publisher
• THE ORIGIN, PERSISTENCE AND FAILINGS OF HIV/AIDS THEORY
  Jefferson (NC): McFarland 2007
• FATAL ATTRACTIONS: THE TROUBLES WITH SCIENCE
  New York: Paraview Press 2001
• SCIENCE OR PSEUDOSCIENCE: MAGNETIC HEALING, PSYCHIC PHENOMENA, AND OTHER HETERODOXIES
  Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2001; paperback edition, 2004
• SCIENTIFIC LITERACY AND THE MYTH OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
  Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1992, ix + 180 pp.; 2nd printing 1992
  In Cassette Book format, RC 35437, narrated by K. D. Henry, 1992
  Paperback edition, 1994
• TO RISE ABOVE PRINCIPLE: THE MEMOIRS OF AN UNRECONSTRUCTED DEAN
  Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1988, xviii + 180 pp. (under the pen-name ‘Josef Martin’)
• THE ENIGMA OF LOCH NESS: MAKING SENSE OF A MYSTERY
  Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1986, xiii + 243 pp.; 2nd printing 1987
  Paperback edition (with revisions), 1988.
  In Cassette Book format, RC 25592, narrated by Richard Dorf, 1988
  U.K. edition, Stirling (Scotland): Johnston & Bacon 1991, xv + 189 pp.
• BEYOND VELIKOVSKY: THE HISTORY OF A PUBLIC CONTROVERSY
  Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1984, xiii + 354 pp. paperback edition , 1999.
• INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS by Henry H. Bauer, Gary D. Christian & James E. O’Reilly (eds.)
  Boston etc.: Allyn & Bacon 1978, ix + 832 pp.
  Italian edition (ANALISI STRUMENTALE), Padua: Piccin Nuova Libraria 1985, xii + 820 pp.
  (an upper-level textbook)
• ELECTRODICS--MODERN IDEAS CONCERNING ELECTRODE REACTIONS
  Stuttgart: Georg Thieme 1972, ix + 131 pp.
  Japanese translation by Reita Tamamushi & Gen P. Sato, Tokyo Kagaku Dozin 1976, ix + 192 pp.
  (an upper-level textbook)
• ALTERNATING CURRENT POLAROGRAPHY AND TENSAMMETRY by B. Breyer & H. H. Bauer
  (vol.13 of Chemical Analysis, edited by P. J. Elving & I. M. Kolthoff)
  New York & London: Interscience 1963, xix + 288 pp.
  (a research monograph)

articles Pertinent TO CURRENT INTERESTS

• Doing science means exploring, EdgeScience 1, October 2009, p. 3
• Challenges and Advantages in Researching Anomalies, IUR -- International UFO Reporter, 32 #2 (December 2008) 3-5,18
• Ethics in Science, pp. 169-82 in Against the Tide: A Critical Review by Scientists of how Physics and Astronomy Get Done, ed. Martín López Corredoira & Carlos Castro Perelman (2008); http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00004046/
• Questioning HIV/AIDS: Morally Reprehensible or Scientifically Warranted? Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, 12 (#4, Winter 2007) 116-120
• Science: Past, Present, and Future, Journal of Scientific Exploration 21 (#1, 2007) 141--155
• The Two-Edged Sword of Skepticism: Occam’s Razor and Occam’s Lobotomy, Journal of Scientific Exploration 20 (#3, 2006) 421--427
• Science in the 21st Century: Knowledge Monopolies and Research Cartels, Journal of Scientific Exploration 18 (2004) 643--660
• Chapter 1 of Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method : to be reprinted in Science & Technology Literacy, ed. John Wilson, Syed Javed & Sue Helme, Science Technology and Mathematics Education (STEM) Project, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
• The Progress of Science and Implications for Science Studies and for Science Policy (an essay review of Prematurity in Scientific Discovery by Ernest Hook (ed.); Striking the Mother Lode in Science by Paula E. Stephan & Sharon G. Levin; Prometheus Bound by John Ziman), Perspectives on Science, 11 (#2, 2003) 236--78
• ‘Pathological Science’ is not Scientific Misconduct (nor is it pathological), HYLE (International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry, ISSN 1433-5158), 8 (#1, April 2002) 5-20; available on-line at http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/8-1/index.html
• Anomalies and Surprises, Journal of Scientific Exploration 15 (2001) 459--63
• a Consumer’s Guide to Science Punditry; Chapter 2, (pp.22-34) in Science Today: Problem or Crisis? (ed. Ralph Levinson & Jeff Thomas, London & New York: Routledge, 1997
• The Anti-Science Phenomenon in Science & Technology Studies, Science Studies, 9 #1 (1996) 34-49; Antiscience in Current Science and Technology Studies, chapter 2 (pp. 41-61) in Ullica Segerstråle (ed.), Beyond the Science Wars, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000; pp. 48-69 in Chinese translation by Caizhong (Philosophy, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, Jiangsu; ca. 2007)
• Cryptozoology, pp.199-214 in Encyclopedia of the Paranormal (ed. Gordon Stein, Amherst (NY): Prometheus Books, 1996)
• Velikovsky, pp.781-88 in Encyclopedia of the Paranormal (ed. Gordon Stein, Amherst (NY): Prometheus Books, 1996)
• Velikovsky’s Place in the History of Science, Skeptic (Altadena CA), 3 #4 (1995) 52-56;
• Two Kinds of Knowledge: Maps and Stories, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 9 (1995) 257-75
• “Culture Wars” (critique of book review of Higher Superstition by Gross & Levitt), Science, 265 (12 August 1994) 854
• Problems in the Scientific Study of Anomalous Experiences, ch.1 (pp. 5-10) in Rima E. Laibow, Robert N. Sollod, & John P. Wilson (eds.), Anomalous Experiences & Trauma: Current Theoretical, Research and Clinical Perspectives, Dobbs Ferry (NY): Center for Treatment & Research of Experienced Anomalous Trauma, 1992
• American Epigraphy: Similarities with Other Anomalous Claims, pp. 70-72 in James P. Whitall, Jr. (ed.), American Epigraphy at the Crossroads, Rowley (MA): Early Sites Research Society, 1991 (E.S.R.S. Epigraphy Series no.2)
• A Dialectical Discussion on the Nature of Disciplines and Disciplinarity, Social Epistemology, 4 (1990) 215-227
• The Velikovsky Affair: Science and Scientism in Contemporary Society, ch.7 (pp.62-70) in S. Fred Singer (ed.), The Universe and its Origins, New York: Paragon House 1990
• Barriers against Interdisciplinarity: Implications for Studies of Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Science, Technology, & Human Values, 15 (1990) 105-119
• Arguments over Anomalies II. Polemics, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 3 (1989) 1-14
• The Velikovsky Affair, La Recherche, #205 (December 1988) 1448-1455. English-language version reprinted in AEON, II #6 (May 1992) 75-84
• Commonalities in Arguments over Anomalies, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2 (1988) 1-11
• What do we Mean by ‘Scientific’?, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1 (1987) 119-127
• Distributions of Belief on Controversial Matters, Zetetic Scholar, #12/13 (August 1987) 99-102
• The Literature of Fringe Science, Skeptical Inquirer, 11 (#2, Winter 1986-87) 205-10
• Frontier Science and Textbook Science, Science & Technology Studies, 4 (#3/4, 1986) 33-34
• Velikovsky and Social Studies of Science, 4S Review, 2 (#4, Winter 1984) 2-8
• The Velikovsky Affair: Passions and Purposes--A perspective, Skeptical Inquirer, V (#1, Fall 1980) 28-31; reprinted (pp.409-412) in K. Frazier (ed.), Paranormal Borderlands of Science (Buffalo: Prometheus 1981)

colloquia & lectures
(selected, not later published)

• Some thoughts about Big Science, NSF Workshop on Expanding the Information and Data Management Research and Education Community, Hotel Roanoke (VA), 2 October 2000
• Research ethics: why the fuss?, Holland Laboratory (American Red Cross), Rockville MD, 8 May 1998
• Science, Social Science, Pseudo-Science.... What´s the Difference?, Annual Awards Banquet, American Chemical Society Northeast Tennessee Section, Kingsport TN, 27 April 1998
• Science, anti-science, & science studies, University of Florida, 20 March 1997
• The myth of the scientific method, 3rd Annual Josephine L. Hopkins Foundation Workshop for Science Journalists, Cornell University, 26 June 1996
• Real science isn’t news, Woods Hole Summer Science Writers’ Seminar, 13 June 1996
• Science is as science does, Funsten Science Lecture Series (Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond), 21 April 1996
• The anti-science phenomenon in STS (invited panel contribution, Society for Social Studies of Science, Charlottesville [VA], October 1995
• Group culture & individual culture (invited panel contribution, Committee VII), XXth International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, Seoul (Korea), August 1995
• The goals of scientific literacy, plenary lecture, International Conference on Education for Scientific Literacy, Science Museum (Kensington, London), November 1994
• Cold fusion: pathological science?, Monash University (Australia), 28th May 1993; Unit for the History & Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney (Australia), 17th May 1993
• Two sorts of knowledge (not two cultures), Monash University (Australia), 26th & 27th May 1993; Center for the Study of Science in Society, VPI&SU, October 1992
• Ethics and science, Monash University (Australia), 24th May 1993; 10th Virginia Tech Symposium on Undergraduate Research (American Chemical Society Student Affiliates), Blacksburg VA, March 1990; Center for the Study of Science in Society, VPI&SU, April 1990
• The myth of the scientific method, Centre for Human Aspects of Science & Technology, University of Sydney (Australia), 20th May 1993
• Are chemists scientists?, 21st Annual South-East Regional Meeting, American Chemical Society Student Affiliates, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City TN, April 1989; 20th Annual meeting, Chemistry Chairs of Southeastern Universities, VPI&SU, Blacksburg VA, April 1989
• Arguments about pseudo-science, Sigma Xi (Virginia Commonwealth University chapter), Richmond VA, March 1986
• Learning from the Velikovsky Affair, Colloquium, Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago, March 1986; 14th International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, Houston TX, November 1985
• Beyond Velikovsky--ESP, UFOs, and all that, Northeast Tennessee Section, American Chemical Society & Southern Appalachian chapter, Sigma Xi, Johnson City TN, December 1985
• Controversies about fringe science, Graduate Colloquium in History & Philosophy of Science, Cornell University, March 1985
• Resistance by scientists to new discovery, Round-Table Discussion, Society for Social Studies of Science, Toronto, October 1980
• Controversies on the fringes of science, Sigma Xi (Lithium Corporation of America), November 1979; American Chemical Society Student Affiliates (South-East), East Tennessee State University, March 1979
• Resistance by scientists to scientific discovery, American Chemical Society (University of Oklahoma section), May 1977; East Tennessee State University, May 1977; Berea College, April 1977; Transylvania University, October 1976; American Chemical Society Student Affiliates (South-East), University of Southern Mississippi, April 1976; abstract in Chemistry Today (Japan), #71 (1977) 59

teaching

• Science & Technology Studies, graduate & undergraduate (at VPI&SU, 1986-99)
• Chemistry, graduate (analytical and electrochemistry) and undergraduate
  (1958-65 at University of Sydney; 1965-66 at Michigan; 1966-78 at Kentucky,
  1972-73 at Southampton, 1986-93 at VPI&SU)

RESEARCH IN ELECTROCHEMISTRY

• A dozen review articles and more than 80 research articles, 1953-1979
• Mentored 4 Ph.D. graduates, 9 Master’s graduates, several postdoctoral fellows and undergraduate research theses