Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher

by Martin Gardner

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Never before has American education in science sunk so low, or the flood of books about bogus science risen so high. Books discrediting the paranormal are outnumbered by those promoting astrology, angels, parapsychology, bizarre forms of medicine and healing, the prophecies of Nostradamus, the secrets of the Great Pyramid, attacks on evolution, and scores of similar follies. Martin Gardner is among those science writers who believe that this tide of irrationality needs to be stemmed by show more informed writing. For years Gardner has authored the "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" column for Skeptical Inquirer magazine. Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher is a collection of Gardner's columns, to which are added thirty recent reviews of books that deal with science, philosophy, theology, and the paranormal. show less

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When Gardner speaks, you can be sure that you aren’t going to hear pseudoscientific nonsense vomited into the great black abyss of popular culture; instead, you are going to get a solid defense of critical thinking and the scientific method, ranging from astronomy and mathematics to literature and music. There are some weaknesses in some of these compilations, but the strong links are holding up well in spite of axiomatic expectations. In this particular compilation, the weak links were mostly book reviews he’d written in the 1990s, many of which were probably very interesting at the time, but are much less interesting now.
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Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books on a vast range of topics including "Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?", "Calculus Made Easy", & "The Annotated Alice". He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. (Publisher Provided)

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1996

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081Computer science, information & general worksAnthologies and QuotationsGeneral collections in American English
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AC8 .G335General WorksCollections. Series. Collected worksCollections. Series. Collected worksCollections of monographs, essays, etc.American and English
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