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Examples investigated include : early scientific blunders -- the flat earth theory, earth-centered universe, rejection of Copernican theory ; evolution ; Piltdown man ; Tay Bridge collapse ; Chernobyl ; Hubble telescope ; Challenger space shuttle disaster ; cold fussion ; the CIA and UFOs ; great Lamarck blunder ; who was G.W. Sleeper? ; what killed the dinosaurs ; perpetual motion ; n-ray ; ether ; Euclid got it wrong ; destruction of Alan Turing ; millenium date ; Alchemy ; Isaac Newton, alchemist ; protein gene ; Francis Galton ; Lysenko ; SV40 near miss ; magnets for toothache ; opium ; Charcot shaker and Tourett trembler ; rotten fish as a cause of leprosy ; Anna O. ; Hans Selye and the effects of stress ; Rorschach blot ; Bhopal ; breeder reactor ; Galileo and the Inquisition, etc

Author

Robert M. Youngson

Publisher

Magpie Books, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845294564

Subjects

Science, Stem