Voodoo science
Subtitle: the road from foolishness to fraud
By: Robert L. Park.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects -- United States; Fraud in science -- United States
First sentence: I called Joe Newman at his home in Lucedale, Mississippi.
Description: Voodoo science is non-science (parapsychology, homeopathy, perpetual motion) and fringe science moving in the wrong direction (cold fusion, electro-magnetic field sickness).  Park covers voodoo science and why it exists (the belief engine) and is popular (news media).
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: pagenum: vii
class: section
title: Preface; pagenum: 3
title: It's Not News, It's Entertainment
class: part
label: 1; pagenum: 28
title: The Belief Gene
class: part
label: 2; pagenum: 46
label: 3
class: part
title: Placebos Have Side Effects; pagenum: 68
label: 4
class: part
title: The Virtual Astronaut; pagenum: 92
label: 5
class: part
title: There Ought To Be A Law; pagenum: 111
title: Perpetuum Mobile
class: part
label: 6; pagenum: 140
label: 7
class: part
title: Currents of Fear; pagenum: 162
label: 8
class: part
title: Judgement Day; pagenum: 172
label: 9
class: part
title: Only Mushrooms Grow In The Dark; pagenum: 192
title: How Strange Is The Universe?
class: part
label: 10; pagenum: 215
class: part
title: Index