Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience by Martin Gardner

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Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience

by Martin Gardner

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miketroll | Mar 15, 2007 |

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syaffolee | Dec 13, 2006 |

This collection of essays is an interesting criticism of popular pseudoscience, controversial in some areas. Gardner questions the arguments of popular and dubious science, and fringe religious teaching. Includes essays on creationists, astronomy, physics, medicine (reflexology and urine therapy), psychology, social science, UFOs, other fringe sciences, and religion. Criticisms of the Ba'hai, Jewish Caballah, and Islamic numerologists Louis Farrakhan and Dr. Rashad Khalifa, are likely to be controversial.
A healthy dose of scepticism, encouraging for those who prize logic and common sense. (

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Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. Here he muses on topics as diverse as numerology, New Age anthropology, and the late Senator Claiborne Pell's obsession with UFOs, as he mines Americans' seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bad science. Gardner's funny, brilliantly unsettling exposés of reflexology and urine therapy should be required reading for anyone interested in "alternative" medicine. In a world increasingly tilted toward superstition, Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? will give those of us who prize logic and common sense immense solace and inspiration.

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