Sins against science
Subtitle: the scientific media hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and others
By: Lynda Walsh.
Series: SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communication
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780791468784
Subjects: Scientific literature.; Science news.; Impostors and imposture in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A brief natural history of hoaxing; title: Method; title: Poe's hoaxing and the construction of readerships; title: Mark Twain and the social mechanics of laughter; title: The hoaxes of Dan de Quille building and defending the west; title: The mechanics of hoaxing.