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Science, Good, Bad, and Bogus

Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010. Book - 1981 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Part One: 1. Hermit Scientists -- 2. "Bourgeois Idealism" in Soviet Nuclear Physics -- 3. The Ars Magna of Ramon Lull -- 4. Some Trends in Pseudoscience -- 5. Minifesto of the Institute of General Eclectics -- 6. Dermo-optical Perception: A Peek Down the Nose -- 7. Targ's ESP Teaching Machine -- 8. Magic and the Paraphysics -- 9. The Irrelevance of Conan Doyle -- 10. Great Fakes Science -- 11. Fliess, Freud, and Biorhythm -- 12. A Skeptic's View of Parapsychology -- 13. Einstein and ESP -- 14. A Second Einstein ESP Letter -- 15. Geller, Gulls, and Nitinol -- 16. The Extraordinary Mental Bending of Professor Taylor -- 17. Quantum Theory and Quack Theory -- 18. Tart's Failed Replication -- Part Two: 19. "ESP: A Scientific Evaluation" -- 20. "Ideas in Conflict" -- 21. "ESP, Seers and Psychics" -- 22."The Roots of Coincidence" -- 23. "Arthur Ford" -- 24. "The Preachers" -- 25. "Uri" and "Arigo" -- 26. "The New Nonsense" and "Supersenses" -- 27. "Superminds" and "The Magic of Uri Geller" -- 28. "Powers of Mind" -- 29. "The Gift of Inner Healing" -- 30. "Mind-Reach" and "The Search for Superman" -- 31. "Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception" -- 32. Seven Books on Black Holes -- 33. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" -- 34. "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" -- 35. Four Books on Catastrophe Theory -- 36. "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" and "Lifetide" -- 37. "Broca's Brain" -- 38. Two Books on Talking Apes.

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PUBLISHED
Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1981.
Year Published: 1981
Description: xvii, 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0879751444
9780879751449

SUBJECTS
Science -- Miscellanea.
Parapsychology -- Miscellanea.
Impostors and imposture -- Miscellanea.
Sciences -- Miscellanées.
Parapsychologie -- Miscellanées.
Impostures -- Miscellanées.