Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience
[Gardner] zaps his targets with laserlike precision and wit.—Entertainment WeeklyMartin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. Here he muses on topics as diverse as numerology, New Age anthropology, and the late Senator Claiborne Pell's obsession with UFOs, as he mines Americans' seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bad science. Gardner's funny, brilliantly unsettling exposés of reflexology and urine therapy should be required reading for anyone interested in alternative medicine. In a world increasingly tilted toward superstition, Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? wi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-24503-5
- EAN: 9780393245035
- Produktnummer: 34247533
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'808 KB
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Martin Gardner (1914-2010) is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on Lewis Carroll and his work. The author of more than a hundred books, he wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and has been hailed by Douglas Hofstadter as one of the great intellects produced in this country in this century.
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