Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic
At a time when popular knowledge of basic science has sunk to a new low and books promoting angels, parapsychology, and bizarre forms of medicine and healing outnumber skeptical books by more than a thousand to one, Americans need a voice of sanity.Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic introduces readers to mind-wrenching probability paradoxes, recent attacks on the Big Bang Theory, and Marianne Williamson's success promoting The Course of Miracles, which is said to have been channeled by Jesus. Other columns address E-prime, a language that omits all forms of the verb to be; Norman Vincent Peale's beliefs in the paranormal; repressed memory therapy; s…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57392-096-4
- EAN: 9781573920964
- Produktnummer: 9561250
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
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Martin Gardner (1914 - 2010), the creator of Scientific American’s Mathematical Games column, which he wrote for more than twenty-five years, was the author of almost one hundred books, including The Annotated Night Before Christmas, The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner’s Favorite Poetic Parodies, From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr., and Science: Good, Bad and Bogus. For many years he was also a contributing editor to the Skeptical Inquirer.
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