Voodoo Science : the Road from Foolishness to Fraud.
In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how are we to separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? Touching on everything from Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old," and "free energy" machines, to unwarranted hype surrounding the In...
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Oxford University Press, USA,
2000
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Table of Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 It'S Not News, It'S Entertainment In Which the Media Covers Voodoo Science; 2 The Belief Gene In Which Science Offers a Strategy for Sorting Out the Truth; 3 Placebos Have Side Effects In Which People Turn to "Natural" Medicine; 4 The Virtual Astronaut In Which People Dream of Artificial Worlds; 5 There Ought to Be a Law In Which Congress Seeks to Repeal the Laws of Thermodynamics; 6 Perpetuum Mobile In Which People Dream of Infinite Free Energy; 7 Currents of Fear In Which Power Lines Are Suspected of Causing Cancer.
- 8 Judgment Day In Which the Courts Confront "Junk Science"9 Only Mushrooms Grow in the Dark In Which Voodoo Science Is Protected by Official Secrecy; 10 How Strange is the Universe? In Which Ancient Superstitions Reappear as Pseudoscience; Index.
