{"title":"Sale","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9780486203942","title":"Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Although we are amused, we may also be embarrassed to find our friends or even ourselves among the gullible advocates of plausible-sounding doubletalk.\" — \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A very able and even-tempered presentation.\" — \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThis witty and engaging book examines the various fads, fallacies, strange cults, and curious panaceas which at one time or another have masqueraded as science. Not just a collection of anecdotes but a fair, reasoned appraisal of eccentric theory, it is unique in recognizing the scientific, philosophic, and sociological-psychological implications of the wave of pseudoscientific theories which periodically besets the world.\u003cbr\u003eTo this second revised edition of a work formerly titled \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of Science\u003c\/i\u003e, Martin Gardner has added new, up-to-date material to an already impressive account of hundreds of systematized vagaries. Here you will find discussions of hollow-earth fanatics like Symmes; Velikovsky and wandering planets; Hörbiger, Bellamy, and the theory of multiple moons; Charles Fort and the Fortean Society; dowsing and the other strange methods for finding water, ores, and oil. Also covered are such topics as naturopathy, iridiagnosis, zone therapy, food fads; Wilhelm Reich and orgone sex energy; L. Ron Hubbard and Dianetics; A. Korzybski and General Semantics. A new examination of Bridey Murphy is included in this edition, along with a new section on bibliographic reference material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of Science\u003c\/i\u003e, 1957.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonus Editorial Feature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Gardner: A Remembrance  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin's first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: \u003ci\u003eMathematics, Magic and Mystery,\u003c\/i\u003e one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and \u003ci\u003eFads and Fallacies in the Name of Science,\u003c\/i\u003e certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary \u003ci\u003eCodes, Ciphers and Secret Writing,\u003c\/i\u003e which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding \u003ci\u003eThe New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings,\u003c\/i\u003e which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU's Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard's I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT's J. P. 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