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Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, more.
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Reviews fads, hoaxes, and cults propagated under the guise of being scientifically founded and proven.
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Mr. Gardner's work is an educational and frequently entertaining work that ends up going on a bit too long. I had a problem with his method many times of not refuting some of the bizarre claims and theories presented, but instead holding them up for ridicule as invalid on their face. It ends up not really being educational on those points, and doesn't provide a rational basis for rejection of the different theories. Most of the crackpot theories presented can be rejected by a reasonably well educated person without too much consideration, but possessing the actual arguments and facts that disprove those theories (done in a number of sections) would both sharpen the presentation and provide ammunition for either refuting those theories or prodding others to think. It seems to me that the first tool of skepticism should be rational analysis, and ridicule and similar appeals to emotion should be used sparingly. There are certainly established phenomena today that could be ridiculed as outlandish and unthinkable...if only they didn't happen to be true. The book does provide a depressing picture of just how long such "science" has been with us, leading one to the inevitable conclusion that the human race is doomed to the continued proliferation of such gobbledygook, no matter the accomplishments of science and education. In the end I think it's a worthwhile read that will convince few people to be more skeptical, but does provide the skeptical with a greater understanding of just how much garbage there is out there. I personally found Sagan's This Demon Haunted World to be a much stronger and worthwhile read on this score.
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Although written in the 1950s, Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies is one of the masterpieces of science. Gardner tackles both seriously and humorously the pseudoscience of his day, including flying saucers, flat-earthers, dianetics, medical cults, dowsers, orogonomy, Atlantis historians, and many more. From Trofim Lysenko's efforts to overthrow Darwin's theory of evolution for Lamarck's theory of acquired characteristics in Russia, to the hilarious chapter on Charles Fort's philosophy of "accept everything but believe nothing" in our own country, Gardner paints a marvelous portrait that will make the reader roll their eyes and smile at some people's credulity as well as be shocked at how far some will go to search for and believe in what isn't there. What strikes me as the most prominent thing about this book is that he almost seems to be addresing the pseudoscience/antiscience of our day instead of decades past. In summary, his essays will bring the reader's mind to a more a skeptical level of thinking when faced with current claims that resemble those of yester-year. Gardner's book is a fitting prequel to Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World as it not only debunks the false claims of pseudoscience, but also educates the reader's mind about what real science is while maintaining an apt for wonder.
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I agree with other reviewers. I also couldn't help but laugh out loud several times while reading it, this is a really funny book. I think it was just such a good idea to compile all those fads once they were known to be fallacious, so that people could laugh at them while at the same time becoming a little more aware of how insidiously gullibility works and what it can do. Very instructive. Other highly recommendable books in these pseudo-science debunking lines are Sagan's "The Daemon Haunted World" and Gilovich's "How we know what isn't so".
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In The Name of Skepticism
I found Mr. Gardner's book quite entertaining in some ways; yet after reading "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science," I must say that 'skepticism in the name of science' can... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Fascinating, humorous look at the history of pseudoscience
From Velikovsky to L. Ron Hubbard to the mysterious Charles Fort, this book is an excellent and easy-to-read history of pseudoscience. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Juni 2000 von A Video Game Critic
Interesting and different
I don't consider myself much of a skeptic, i.e. I currently feel inclined to believe that there is something real about the paranormal, UFOs and other unexplained phenomena, as... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Doesn't show a firm grasp of what's science and what isn't.
This book is about pseudoscience. Unfortunately it's written by somebody whose knowledge of pseudoscience was incomplete. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Absolutely marvelous!
I have never been able to laugh so much about bogus theories as when I read this book, and yet all Gardner is actually doing is to tell us what these cranks believe. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
Excellent!
It is amazing to see the kinds of weird things that human beings have believed and promoted. This book is an extremely detailed guided tour through lots of human delusions of the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. September 1998 von A. Ramirez
A Skeptic's view of past & present quackery, & pseudoscience
Mr. Garder's book is one which makes us laugh at our gullibility. Since this book was up-dated on 1956, much of the information is about old crackpot theories, like Flat-earth... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. August 1998 veröffentlicht
good book, but flawed.
Gardner centers his attacks on what he terms "psuedo science." Having read the book carefully, I got the impression that Gardner would attack anything that doesn't fit... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Dezember 1997 veröffentlicht
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