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"Although we are amused, we may also be embarrassed to find our friends or even ourselves among the gullible advocates of plausible-sounding doubletalk." — __Saturday Review__ "A very able and even-tempered presentation." — __New Yorker__This witty and engaging book examines the various fads, fallacies, strange cults, and curious panaceas which at one time or another have masqueraded as science. Not just a collection of anecdotes but a fair, reasoned appraisal of eccentric theory, it is unique in recognizing the scientific, philosophic, and sociological-psychological implications of the wave of pseudoscientific theories which periodically besets the world. To this second revised edition of a work formerly titled __In the Name of Science__, Martin Gardner has added new, up-to-date material to an already impressive account of hundreds of systematized vagaries. Here you will find discussions of hollow-earth fanatics like Symmes; Velikovsky and...

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Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781306340564

Category

science

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Stem

Rating

4.4 / 5 (130 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14