Voodoo Science by Robert Park
This book examines the social, economic and political forces that elicit or support flawed or fake science and sustain it in the face of often overwhelming contrary evidence. "Voodoo Science" is intended to include pseudoscience, or irrational beliefs dressed up in scientific garb, the misuse of science to deliberately mislead or confuse, and pathological science, in which scientists persist with their interpretations long after the evidence has decisively ruled against them in the perspectives of an objective observer. The book attempts to delineate the contexts in which fraud can arise in science, and also to assess the trends in the Public's ability to assess scientific issues and integrate scientific understanding in their judgements and world view. The story is told through examples ranging from impossible perpetual motion machines to magnet therapy. Drawing on his eighteen years of exposing bad science, Park does not hesitate to name names and point fingers. Park lays the ultimate blame for "voodoo science" not on the media, the government, or the scientific illiteracy of the public, but on the scientific community itself, and the failure of scientists to communicate to the public.
'I finished this brilliant book within a day, and then felt such withdrawal symptoms I went right back to the beginning and started again' Richard Dawkins
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198507451 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198507453 |
| Titel | Voodoo Science |
| Autor | Robert Park |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Oxford University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2000-12-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 240 |
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