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Author Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010.

Uniform Title In the name of science
Title Fads and fallacies in the name of science / Martin Gardner.

Publication Info. New York : Dover Publications, 1957.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Sperry  508 G175f 1957    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 2nd edition.
Description x, 363 pages ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note "A revised and expanded edition of the work first published in 1952 under the title In the name of science"--Title page verso.
"T394"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents In the name of science -- Flat and hollow -- Monsters of doom -- The Forteans -- Flying saucers -- Zig-zag-and-swirl -- Down with Einstein! -- Sir Isaac Babson -- Dowsing rods and doodlebugs -- Under the microscope -- Geology versus Genesis -- Lysenkoism -- Apologists for hate -- Atlantis and Lemuria -- The Great Pyramid -- Medical cults -- Medical quacks -- Food faddists -- Throw away your glasses! -- Eccentric sexual theories -- Orgonomy -- Dianetics -- General semantics, etc. -- From bumps to handwriting -- ESP and PK -- Bridley Murphy and other matters.
Subject Science -- Miscellanea.
Science. (DNLM)D012586
Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01921748
Trivia and miscellanea.
ISBN 0486203948
9780486203942

 
    
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