An edition of Voodoo science
(2000)
Voodoo Science
The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
by Robert L. Park
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A lucid explanation of what science is and what it is not, using widely publicized pseudoscientific "sensations" as examples.
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Voodoo science: the road from foolishness to fraud
2001, Oxford University Press
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
August 31, 2001, Oxford University Press, USA
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Voodoo science: the road from foolishness to fraud
2000, Oxford University Press
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Voodoo science: the road from foolishness to fraud
2000, Oxford University Press
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Book Details
First Sentence
"I CALLED JOE NEWMAN at his home in Lucedale, Mississippi."
Table of Contents
Preface
ONE It's not news, it's entertainment - in which the media covers voodoo science
TWO The belief gene - in which science offers a strategy for sorting out the truth
THREE Placebos have side effects - in which people turn to "natural" medicine
FOUR The virtual astronaut - in which people dream of artificial worlds
FIVE There ought to be a law - in which Congress seeks to repeal the laws of thermodynamics
SIX Perpetuum mobile - in which people dream of infinite free energy
SEVEN Currents of fear - in which power lines are suspected of causing cancer
EIGHT Judgment day - in which the courts confront "junk science"
NINE Only mushrooms grow in the dark - in which voodoo science is protected by official secrecy
TEN How strange is the universe? - in which ancient superstitions reappear as pseudoscience
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