Voodoo Science by Robert L. Park (2000, Hardcover) 
Voodoo Science by Robert L. Park (2000, Hardcover)

 
Voodoo Science by Robert L. Park (2000, Hardcover)

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2000-05-25
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0195135156
ISBN-13: 9780195135152
Product ID: EPID1669466
Description: Parks humorously cuts his way through a forest of scientific proclamations of varying legitimacy in an effort to raise scientific literacy. His method is out-and-out debunking of fraudulent sciences, popular misconceptions, and scientifi...
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Synopsis
Parks humorously cuts his way through a forest of scientific proclamations of varying legitimacy in an effort to raise scientific literacy. His method is out-and-out debunking of fraudulent sciences, popular misconceptions, and scientific malapropisms from Deepak Chopra to the International Space Station.

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Publication Date:2000-05-25

Size
Length:230 pages
Height:9.8 in
Width:6.8 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:18.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Touching on everything from Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old," and "free energy" machines, to unwarranted hype surrounding the International Space Station, Robert L. Park leads us through the dim back alleys of fringe science, down the gleaming corridors of Washington power and even into our evolutionary past to search out the origins of voodoo science. Along the way, Park offers some simple and engaging science lessons, showing us that you don't have to be a scientist to spot the foolish and fraudulent science that swirls around us.

Industry Reviews
"Nothing and nobody are safe from Park's gaze, which ranges across the absurd and the sublime with equal impartiality....Whatever else you may think about pseudoscience, at least its' entertaining."
Regis

"His book reads like news, critically recounted by someone who has had first-hand knowledge of the facts."
Times Literary Supplement - Luciano Floridi (06/15/2001)

"Anyone who reads Parks' weekly one-page e-mail missive from the APS, "What's New", knows his deft and humorous touch. His acerbic wit finds a perfect match in the book-length forum of VOODOO SCIENCE...Park is at his best in providing the clear and cogent physics background that exposes the errors in the examples he chooses. The physics lessons that come as part of the book are almost worth the cover price by themselves."
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