By Martin Gardner
"Although we're amused, we can also be embarrassed to discover our acquaintances or perhaps ourselves one of the gullible advocates of plausible-sounding doubletalk." — Saturday Review
"A very capable and even-tempered presentation." — New Yorker
This witty and fascinating booklet examines a number of the fads, fallacies, unusual cults, and curious panaceas which at one time or one other have masqueraded as technology. not only a suite of anecdotes yet a good, reasoned appraisal of eccentric concept, it really is special in spotting the clinical, philosophic, and sociological-psychological implications of the wave of pseudoscientific theories which periodically besets the world.
To this moment revised version of a piece previously titled In the identify of Science, Martin Gardner has additional new, up to date fabric to an already remarkable account of 1000s of systematized vagaries. right here you can find discussions of hollow-earth fans like Symmes; Velikovsky and wandering planets; Hörbiger, Bellamy, and the speculation of a number of moons; Charles citadel and the Fortean Society; dowsing and the opposite unusual tools for locating water, ores, and oil. additionally lined are such issues as naturopathy, iridiagnosis, sector remedy, nutrition fads; Wilhelm Reich and orgone intercourse power; L. Ron Hubbard and Dianetics; A. Korzybski and common Semantics. a brand new exam of Bridey Murphy is incorporated during this version, besides a brand new part on bibliographic reference material.
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