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	Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1957 Dover publication is a revised and expanded version of In the Name of Science, which was published by G.
		A recent critique of Gardner, "In the Name of Skepticism: Martin Gardner's Misrepresentations of General Semantics," by Bruce I. Kodish, appeared in General Semantics Bulletin, Number 71, 2004.
		All of the case-studies were contemporary fads, but some had a long history, which the book traces (for example on homeopathy in the "Medical Cults" chapter).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fads_and_Fallacies_in_the_Name_of_Science (595 words)

	Turkey City Lexicon
		In science fiction's best-known workshop, Clarion, would-be writers are wrenched from home and hearth and pitilessly blitzed for six weeks by professional SF writers, who serve as creative-writing gurus.
		Named for the American comic-strip in which dialogue balloons were often seen emerging from the Manhattan skyline.
		Takes its name from a mainstream story about a medieval cloister which was sold as SF because of the serendipitous arrival of a UFO at the end.
	www.sfwa.org /writing/turkeycity.html (4410 words)

	Science Good, Bad and Bogus by Martin Gardner - an infinity plus review
		Science Good, Bad and Bogus is, in a way, Gardner's very much later companion volume to that seminal work, and like it is drawn from essays written over the years.
		His subject matter is of course a mixture of pseudoscience and the supernatural/psychic; in effect the supernatural/psychic becomes here a subgenre of pseudoscience, in that he approaches psychic claims from the viewpoint of experimental science.
		A recurring theme, and one that could well be carried over into our evaluations of more orthodox science, is that expertise and indeed genius in one sphere of human understanding should not be taken as any qualification at all for pronouncements in another.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/sciencegbb.htm (1020 words)

	The Nature of Science
		The nature of science and its claims for rationality have led to thousands of books on the history and philosophy of science over the past century.
		In addition to traditional philosophy of science (represented by Popper below) which largely deals with the logical claims of science as a way to find truth, the newer philosophy of science is implicitly (Kuhn) or explicitly (Feyerabend) critical of claims that science has any inside track on truth or even rationality.
		A defense of science from the claims of certain members of the academic world that science is inherently biased and privileges some forms of thinking over others.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sch/beliefs/b-science.htm (679 words)

	General Semantics, The Cult
		General Semantics is also the name given to a movement or cult that developed around the ideas of the founder, Korzybski.
		It was also popularized in novel form by the science fiction writer, A. van Vogt, starting with the first in a series of books, The World of Null-A, that was serialized in a SF magazine in 1945 and published in book form in 1948.
		Even though General Semantics was supposedly a science, in the third edition of 1948, Korzybski wrote, "this third edition requires no revision of the text." This tells us much about the nature of the ideas presented as final dogma.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/6760 (423 words)

	Physics Today October 2000
		His Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1952, in print as a Dover paperback) still crackles today with clarity and wry observations about the foibles of those who adapt the language of science, but not its methods, in propounding the often preposterous.
		Its focus is on recent episodes of fringe science that capture the imagination not just of the public but of Washington policymakers and the major news organizations.
		Science is the only way we have of separating truth from ideology, or fraud, or mere foolishness." But it won't happen, Park maintains, unless scientists are willing to come forward and make it happen.
	www.aip.org /pt/vol-53/iss-10/p78.html (798 words)

	Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Gardner centers his attacks on what he terms "psuedo science." Having read the book carefully, I got the impression that Gardner would attack anything that doesn't fit the scientific paradigm.
		Charles Fort for instance was skeptical of data that science ignores.
		Although written in the 1950s, Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies is one of the masterpieces of science.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/0486203948 (682 words)

	Genomes, Infectious Diseases and Controversies
		It is important to note that the publication of new names or new combinations in a validation list is the responsibility of the authors who propose the new nomenclatures.
		Caveat: It is important to note that crooks who construct attractive fallacies in the name of science, use practices (naturally, not all of them) which belong to science, so as to pretend to have a scientific approach.
		An amusing site where standard fads and fallacies in biology can be found as well as links to other sites with a variety of information.
	www.pasteur.fr /recherche/unites/REG/Journalist_more.shtml (2180 words)

	Voices of Unreason >> Should We Trust Science? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		His 1952 book, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science is considered a seminal work in rational discussion of fringe topics and so-called "alternative" health care claims.
		Her answer to a question about basic science education in this country is "The Big Bang Theory is accepted on faith." She then went on to clarify that, why, yes, she does think the decision in Kansas is wrong.
		Part of science is repeatability, so if you publish something in a peer-reviewed journal you must be prepared for somebody else to try and repeat your activities to see if they get the same result.
	www.voicesofunreason.com /essays/shouldwetrustscience (1386 words)

	Natural Sciences Readings: Science and Society - BIS Program at USF
		The alliance of science and government in America has become a necessity in modern times for the defense of the nation and the financing of research.
		Those essays mirror the broad range of scientific and technical issues confronting the modern president, from basic issues of science, research and education to those of military research, space exploration or disarmament.
		Science seeks the truth but there is no definite end to the search.
	www.outreach.usf.edu /BIS/natscience/part3-4.htm (324 words)

	Yoga Darsana Institute \| Current Shop - Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In a general sense, then, this book is still very much relevant in that it shows how pseudo science and pseudo scientists work by blithely ignoring facts, expounding theories with more support in rethoric than in actual facts.
		Thus this book stands as a classic of science writing, and is worth reading regardless the importance of its immediate subjects.
		That the public does so burdened by the pressures of the scientific community who will allegorically burn anyone at the stake who dares disagree with their official dogma is even more worrying.
	www.yogadarsana.org /buy-0486203948.html (1204 words)

	books about: fads (trendwatching organisations entertainment) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The collaborative effort of Marjolijn Bijlefeld and Sharon K. Zoumbaris, Encyclopedia Of Diet Fads is a solid, 242-page alphabetically arranged reference to the health fads and fashions of 200 years.
		The things that we take for granted and their implications for modern life are laid out with such a sense of fun, that you almost forgive the guys who created air conditioning and tv dinners for their contributions to a comfortable, yet more isolated world.
		In the 1920s and especially during the Great Depresssion of the 1930s, dance marathon fads played on this morbid fascination we have for people with hard-luck stories, people down on the luck, people at the end of their rope.
	www.very-clever.com /books/fads (1489 words)

	Science, Forteans and Skeptics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		There are, therefore, topics within the study of science and the public, such as anti-scientific sentiment, the science wars, trust in science, and situated knowledge, that relate to the Fortean and Skeptic communities.
		Science relates to real knowledge no more than does the growth of a plant, or the organization of a department store, or the development of a nation: that all are assimilative, or organizing, or systematizing processes that represent different attempts to attain the positive state...
		An anti-fringe science movement has been spawned whose members take it on themselves to 'debunk' all that is not within the canon, in the name of proper scientific method.
	www.skepticreport.com /tools/forteans.htm (5211 words)

	Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science)
		Gardner's book quite entertaining in some ways; yet after reading "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science," I must say that 'skepticism in the name of science' can appear just as questionable and 'unscientific' as any of the so-called fads.
		In discussing Alfred Korzybski's discipline, general semantics, Gardner says that Korzybski's book, Science and Sanity, contains "highly dubious speculations about neurology and psychiatric therapy"; yet he gives no real evidence for his belief, and fails to report that Korzybski's book was well received by several prominent neurologists on its publication.
		Basically, as these examples illustrate, Gardner fails to adhere to one of the cardinal rules of science, which is to report on all relevant aspects of an issue, even those that might bring one's own position into question.
	www.uni-protokolle.de /buecher/isbn/0486203948 (759 words)

	Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science)
		Gardner has made a career out of evangelizing the so-called "demarcation criteria" - the (somewhat) Popperian rules for discerning science from "pseudo-science." In it's heyday, this chestnut did a lot to help anglophone philosophers of science focus their discourse.
		Sure he does a lot of name-calling, but he does it with style and dry humor and the people he calls names really kind of deserve it.
		I think this book would have been much better if it acknowledged that distinguishing good science from bad can actually be very difficult.
	www.onlinemerchantaccountnow.com /BookStore/isbn0486203948.html (637 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Gardner's book consists of essays (chapters) that attempt to defend science by attacking a variety of disciplines, movements, and individuals that he labels "cults," "pseduosciences," and "cranks." He does this basically by defaming them in various legitimate but also questionable ways.
		The only truly sad part is that Gardner's predictions of a more scientific future essentialy came unraveled in the last thirty or so years of the 20th century, with the rise of the Human Potential movement in the 1970s and the resurgence of Christian fundamentalism in the late 80s and 90s.
		I first read "Fads and Fallacies", oh, about 40 years ago, not long after it was first published.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486203948 (1023 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Hermits and Cranks -- Fifty years ago Martin Gardner launched the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Science and Technology at Scientific American.com: Hermits and Cranks -- Fifty years ago Martin Gardner launched the modern skeptical movement.
		It has come down to us as Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which is still in print and is arguably the skeptic classic of the past half a century.
		Martin Gardner's book In the Name of Science is the bible of the modern skeptical movement.
	www.sciam.com /article.cfm?articleID=000547F6-C50D-1CC6-B4A8809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=2 (404 words)

	Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud from Aracaria Speciality Bookstore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Junk science refers to scientists who use their expertise to befuddle and mislead others (usually juries or lawmakers).
		Park is well-acquainted with voodoo science in all its forms.
		Park shows why a "disproportionate share of the science seen by the public is flawed" (because shaky science is more likely to skip past peer review and head straight for the media), and he gives a good tour of recent highlights in Voodoo.
	www.aracaria.com.au /books/0195147103.html (282 words)

	DEBUNKING THEM IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE - Access to Energy Newsletter Archive
		The list includes Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, published in 1957 and recently reprinted by Dover Publications.
		When the book was written, the names of Uri Geller, Erich von Daniken, Jeane Dixon, P. Ehrlich and E.J. Sternglass were unknown, but there was no shortage of charlatans, though there were fewer college professors among them, and except for Lysenko and other totalitarian pseudoscientists, none seem to have been motivated by political ideology.
		Neither book is concerned with energy (except for foolishness like "orgone" energy); yet both, in different ways, throw some light on the irrationality of pseudoscience in the past, and help to understand the pseudoscience of the present.
	www.accesstoenergy.com /view/atearchive/s76a3942.htm (239 words)

	There's One Born Every Minute
		Robert L. Park, the author of ''Voodoo Science,'' was in the audience together with executives from many of America's power companies.
		Still, no amount of real science will separate true believers from their pet theories, no matter how silly they might appear in the cold light of day.
		Homeopathy, a medical cult founded by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann in the early 1800's (and currently enjoying a renaissance among ''natural medicine'' fans), is the practice of treating diseases with remedies to be taken by the patient in doses charitably described as extremely dilute.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/06/04/reviews/000604.04regist.html (969 words)

	Martin Gardner Evaluates Dianetics
		Reference: Martin Gardner, "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science", Dover Publications: New York, 1957 (1st ed 1952).
		In the demonstration which followed, however, she failed to remember a single formula in physics (the subject in which she was majoring), or the color of Hubbard's tie when his back was turned.
		Science of Survival, a new book covering simplified and speedier processing techniques, was published by Hubbard in 1951.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~dst/Library/Shelf/gardner (6803 words)

	Gardner - Science: Good, Bad and Bogus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Written as a sequel to Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Martin Gardner's classic Science: Good, Bad and Bogus discusses the shabbiness of the evidence supporting research claims in such areas as ESP, psychokinesis, faith healing, precognition and psychic surgery and includes am exposé of the major secrets of Uri Geller.
		Science: Good, Bad and Bogus is the strongest attack written to dadte on the recent occult explosion.
		At times satirical, at time humorous, and always informative, it is essential reading for all followers of modern science.
	www.skeptic.de /b/0191.php4 (210 words)

	Scientists vs. pseudoscientists
		The Skeptic column in the most recent Scientific American is mostly about Martin Gardner's take on "hermit scientists," and how, 50 years after he published Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (which was originally published as In the Name of Science), "pseudoscientists" are still in business today.
		Shermer says "We should keep these criteria in mind when we explore controversial ideas on the borderlands of science" that is far from marginalizing those views.
		You say that the article focuses on the fringes, and not the mainstream of science, but there is no rigid, unchanging map of where science will go, and what properly belongs in the center and what on the edge.
	www.provenanceunknown.com /archive/2002/02-18_scientists_v.html (755 words)

	Some Purported Marks of Pseudoscience
		In his book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Martin Gardner offers a number of features as characteristic of "cranks." These are:
		Cranks claim that their isolation is due to the shortsighted traditionalism of conventional science.
		Even the great French Académie des Sciences ridiculed this folk belief, in spite of a number of early studies of meteoric phenomena.
	www.trinity.edu /cbrown/science/pseudoscience_marks.html (630 words)

	astr336
		A famous dichotomy between the sciences and the humanities, and public understanding of them, was laid down by C. Snow and has been widely discussed, with ignorance of the second law of thermodynamics compared with ignorance of Shakespeare.
		We will consider the fundamental originators of modern science, including Tycho, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, viewing their original works in the Chapin Library of rare books and comparing their interests in science with what we now call pseudoscience, like alchemy.
		Building on the work of Martin Gardner in "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science," and using the current journal "The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine," we consider from a scientific point of view what is now called complementary or alternative medicine, including both older versions such as chiropractic and newer nonscientific practices.
	www.williams.edu /admin/registrar/catalog/depts0304/astr/astr336.html (265 words)

	Nature of Science Book Review
		If students are to learn about the nature of science and scientific inquiry, there needs to be an explicit treatment of the subject matter.
		In order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of science and scientific inquiry (e.g., terms, distinctions, history, values, impact, philosophy, procedures, problems, processes, etc.), it is incumbent upon teacher candidates to read widely in the field of science.
		Gardner, M. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science.
	www.phy.ilstu.edu /~wenning/ptefiles/310content/nature/nos_book_review.html (660 words)

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