Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science"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

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inspired the American Civil Rights Movement

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Expert violin-makers and critics of superior violin craftsmanship

of which he was technical editor for sixteen years

the German-language front matter has been omitted in this edition for reasons of space and replaced by an English translation

this volume appears on the Malaspina Great Books Core Reading List

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and later at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey

Germer Baillière