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	ISTPP: A Rebuttal to Voodoo Science
		He explains that science is supposed to show the way to resolving controversy, by taking recourse to experimentation.
		Despite his lip service to the cause of objective science, Park appears to feel the hypothesis of Hagelin’s study is ridiculous on its face, and that no serious investigation of the claim is necessary.
		Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud.
	www.istpp.org /crime_prevention/voodoo_rebuttal.html (2917 words)

	The Voodoo Sciences
		However much our Chief Voodoo Advisor protested that his work was scientific, we’d demand some kind of track record, some evidence that his predictions might once in a while come true; while we impose no such burdens on economists, which is just as well, since their track record is one of universally dismal failure.
		This gap is exacerbated to the extent that either scientists or humanists believe there is scientific value in the “social sciences.” In my judgment there is very little science in the “social sciences,” and the use of the word “science” to describe these disciplines is generally either mendacious or farcical.
		I would be far more willing to believe that the two cultures could coexist, however, were it not for the contamination of the “social sciences,” which pose as sciences to the humanists, and humanities to the scientists, but which are not in fact much good as either.
	www.jerrypournelle.com /science/voodoo.html (3596 words)

	Rebel Science
		This site is an alternative to voodoo science, the sort of science that coats itself with a veneer of legitimacy while being not much more valid than the crackpot science that its practitioners love to disparage and distance themselves from.
		Truth is, voodoo science is much more detrimental to our understanding of nature than crackpot science because society is easily fooled by its authoritative mask and may, as a result, spend huge sums of money and decades (if not centuries) chasing after fantasies.
		Voodoo science is not about understanding nature but about working at being so incomprehensible or so arcane to one's fellow human beings as to be regarded as brilliant.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /louis.savain (512 words)

	Review: Voodoo Science by Robert Parker
		Pathological science (a term coined by the noted physicist Irving Langmuir about 50 years ago) results when real scientists become so enamored of a plausible idea that they delude themselves and others into believing that they have produced a spectacular result, when they have done no such thing.
		Voodoo Science is in the honorable tradition of expositions of public gullibility in the face of claims masquerading as science.
		I recommend all of these to the serious reader, but Voodoo Science is not only a superb and entertaining book in itself but a fine place to start a more extensive program of reading on the subject of pseudoscience and its relatives.
	www.baskeptics.org /voodoo_science.htm (765 words)

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		With spectacular advances in science and medicine b eing announced almost daily, the public has come to expect scientific "miracles." And of course, there are "miracles" aplenty, or at least scientific wonders that wo uld have seemed like miracles a few short decades ago.
		Too often, however, those with litt le exposure to the methods and ideas of modern science are unable to distinguish genuine scient ific advances from the claims of misguided zealots or unscrupulous hucksters.
		A P h.D. in science is not an inoculation against foolishness or mendacity, and even some Nobel la ureates seem to be a bit strange.
	www.bobpark.com /Articles/SevenSigns.htm (3140 words)

	Voodoo Science
		The integrity of science is anchored in the willingness of scientists to test their ideas and results in direct confrontation with their scientific peers.
		Voodoo science, by contrast, is usually pitched directly to the media, circumventing the normal process of scientific review and debate.
		The reluctance of scientists to publicly confront voodoo science is vexing.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/p/park-voodoo.html (8820 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Park is well-acquainted with voodoo science in all its incarnations.
		Voodoo science is a bad thing but we have sometimes to learn to live side by side with erroneous or bad things as these and for that I think this book is good but with a restricted utility.
		VOODOO SCIENCE is a book length editorial by Robert Park addressing the various manifestations of voodoo science that have surfaced, and, in some cases still persist, in contemporary modern society.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198604432 (2153 words)

	Voodoo Science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Voodoo Science, another term for pseudoscience, became popularized in a book (Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, written by Robert L. Park and published by Oxford University Press in 2000, ISBN 0-19-513515-6 or 0-19-514710-3).
		Park himself uses the term voodoo science as a catch-all concept covering four categories sometimes difficult to distinguish:
		Park, a physics professor, science administrator/lobbyist/journalist and outspoken scientific skeptic, outlines his seven warning signs that a claim may be pseudoscientific and analyzes beliefs in popular culture and the media with a skeptical eye.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voodoo_Science (225 words)

	Issues in Science and Technology: Voodoo Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, by Robert Park New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 230 pp.
		The road to voodoo science often starts with pathological science, in which scientists who should know better delude themselves into believing experimental results that defy everything they know about how the physical world works.
		Voodoo science in all these varieties is rampant in society today, Park notes, from cold fusion to homeopathy and ESP; from silicone implants to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) international space station.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3622/is_200001/ai_n8901773 (1139 words)

	Critical Review Dissects Voodoo Science
		Historians of science may well look back on this book as a dying ember from the funeral pyre of late twentieth century establishment physics, which hurtles toward a supposed "theory of everything," while being blissfully ignorant of profound cracks in its very foundations.
		His definition of voodoo science is encapsulated in the subtitle, "The Road from Foolishness to Fraud." There is a progression from "honest error" that evolves "from self-delusion to fraud," he says.
		The result of all this is to have Morrison, the prime purveyor of the "pathological science" theory of cold fusion, passing misinformation to Park, who then jazzes it up with snide remarks suited to the Washington beltway crowd.
	www.infinite-energy.com /iemagazine/issue30/voodoo.html (2267 words)

	The Danger of Voodoo Science
		It is a romantic rebellion, led not by the religious fundamentalists who are the traditional foes of science, but by serious academics and writers who regard themselves as intellectuals.
		With no understanding at all of science or its methods, they have persuaded themselves that modern science is a product of the power structure it serves.
		But it is science that uncovers the problems and it is to science that we turn to solve them.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/070995park.html (1038 words)

	Physics Today October 2000
		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.
		Time after time Park shows federal agencies, congressional representatives, judges, and juries getting embroiled in voodoo science--without, of course, realizing at the time that is what it is. Policymakers' time and attention are diverted, taxpayers dollars are wasted, and the public's perception of science gets all out of whack.
		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)

	Voodoo science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, we have been pumping ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases (principally carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
		Gelbspan's book is not just about global warming, but also about what he calls the "disinformation" campaign conducted by the global-warming skeptics, who, he charges, receive much of their funding from industry groups.
		The effect is not necessarily direct; after the National Academy of Sciences report was issued, George Bush himself felt compelled to give a short Rose Garden address in which he acknowledged its findings.
	www.providencephoenix.com /archive/features/01/08/09/GLOBAL.html (2446 words)

	The Chronicle: 1/31/2003: The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science
		He noted that courts can turn to scientific organizations, like the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to identify neutral experts who could preview questionable scientific testimony and advise a judge on whether a jury should be exposed to it.
		If modern science has learned anything in the past century, it is to distrust anecdotal evidence.
		He is the author of Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to Fraud (Oxford University Press, 2002).
	chronicle.com /free/v49/i21/21b02001.htm (1358 words)

	Brian Hanson - Science and Voodoo Science
		Architects and their apologists have been content to view science as yet another source of metaphors for their art: they have ceased to value scientific method as a way of better understanding the world in which they build.
		More generally, the New Sciences allow us to explore and understand (if not yet fully to create) more subtle forms of “order” than are possible using the conventional geometrical tools beloved of architects.
		The convergent sciences of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology seem to provide far greater support to such a quest, than to the Jencksian infatuation with greater confusion and obfuscation in architecture, which seems to have more to do with the freemasonic tendencies of the architectural profession than any objective reality.
	www.katarxis3.com /Hanson-Voodoo_Science.htm (1949 words)

	Review of Voodoo Science by Robert Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Voodoo science is Park's term which encompasses the range from honestly believed but dubious science, through outright pseudoscience to deliberate fraud.
		A subsidiary theme of "Voodoo Science" is the extent to which the media spread misinformation.
		Another sample of Park's own voodoo science is to cite the cost of putting mass into Earth orbit to demonstrate that even if there were gold in orbit it wouldn't pay to fetch it.
	www.phact.org /e/z/park.htm (1436 words)

	Voodoo Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The book is a very welcome and worthwhile discussion of various subjects and sagas, from cold fusion to parapsychology to fears about power lines causing cancer.
		She figured out a test for a school science project, and spent $10 on materials.
		Therapists who claimed to be able to detect energy fields emanating from people were asked to put their hands through holes in a screen, behind which the unseen Emily would place her hand under one or other of the therapists' hands, according to a coin toss.
	www.blackstarreview.com /rev-0067.html (440 words)

	Voodoo Science Conjures a Celebrity Out of a Scientist (Generation sXeptic)
		In March, Park was the featured member of a special panel on junk science at the annual APS meetings that was appropriately titled "Voodoo Science." Throughout August and early September, C-SPAN's "BookTV" carried segments of a press conference that featured Park discussing
		Park's public advocacy as a scientist was welcomed among many science enthusiasts and members of the science community.
		The danger in writing science fiction is that, like masturbation, if you do too much of it you may begin to mistake it for the real thing.
	www.csicop.org /genx/voodooscience (1148 words)

	Voodoo Science -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Voodoo Science -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Voodoo Science, another term for (An activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions) pseudoscience, was popularized in a book of the same title (ISBN 0195147103) written in 2001 by (additional info and facts about Robert L. Park) Robert L. Park.
		The term has been used by other authors, but it is most closely associated with Robert L. Park.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vo/voodoo_science.htm (224 words)

	Commentaries: Voodoo Science, Indeed! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		His politicized weekly "What's New" internet science column is remarkable in that it is tolerated at all by the APS.
		Dr. Park has now compiled his wisdom in a short volume, in which he claims to have discovered a new kind of science -- "voodoo science" -- the title of his book.
		In Voodoo, Park dismisses cold fusion at its very first mention, referring to it as "the discredited 'cold fusion' claim made several years earlier by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann." He says that a "dwindling band of believers" continue to gather each year "at some swank international resort" in an attempt to "resuscitate" cold fusion.
	www.anomalist.com /commentaries/voodoo.html (2183 words)

	Polygraphs and Voodoo Science
		Junk science has no place in a system where justice is pursued by determining the facts.
		New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR) heard Dr. Alan Zelicoff (Sandia Nat'l Labs) speak on "Lies, Damned Lies, and Polygraphs." The meeting was held on Wednesday, April 9th, in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science's Honeywell Theatre.
		That runs counter to advice last October from the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, which concluded the polygraphs the DOE was using were unscientific, missing spies while implicating the innocent.
	www.nmsr.org /polygraf.htm (5080 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Paperback of the week: Voodoo Science
		For much of this nonsense, physicist Robert Park rightly blames the media, which provides reams of unquestioning publicity because voodoo science is 'not really news, it's entertainment'.
		As a result, 'a disproportionate share of the science seen by the public is flawed,' he says.
		'Most people who are drawn to voodoo science simply long for a world in which things are some other way than the way they are,' he explains.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,668685,00.html (320 words)

	Voodoo science: Hazards Magazine 75
		What these contradictory and highly politicised uses of medical science share is the common desire by employers to minimise the costs of doing business by passing them on to labour.
		Either way, corporate interests and their advocates seek to use science to lend legitimacy to their specious claims that the cause of RSIs is beyond the employer's control.
		To preserve the appearance of independence, corporate interests rely on think tanks and advocates to give their positions on science issues the imprimatur of objectivity.
	www.hazards.org /haz75/voodooscience.htm (1304 words)

	Science And Supermodels
		Science has proved this on numerous occasions yet time and again I see sources in the mainstream media trying to establish doubt about the total awesomeness of coffee.
		People are not always sure there is a science to relatonships until I spend a minute explaining it to them.
		Let them talk for 45 minutes about whatever they want and then, at the end, say “You know, it’s all inductance when you get right down to it” and they will take a swig of beer and nod their head, looking forlornly in the distance, convinced you are the smartest person they know.
	www.scienceandsupermodels.com (5744 words)

	Amazon.com: Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud: Books: Robert L. Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.amazon.com /Voodoo-Science-Road-Foolishness-Fraud/dp/0195147103 (776 words)

	Voodoo Science
		Winston was, however, surprised to find a 111 page "multi-agency task force" report on Voodoo and mercury.
		This Voodoo Report was produced by the Government's "Task Force on Ritualistic Uses of Mercury," and took approximately four years to produce.
		It is part of the EPA mercury rule-making administrative record.
	www.thecre.com /wdw/20040108_wdw.html (109 words)

	the skeptic's dictionary, robert todd carroll,voodo science, robert park,the undergrowth of science, Walter Gratzer,the ...
		One curious aspect of the scientism that today pervades much scientific publishing is that professional scientists are often given a completely uncritical reception even when they indulge in outrageously unscientific prejudices.
		Strangely, some science professionals who expect the severest critical reception from their peers for their academic papers, are allowed to be as careless of facts as they please when it comes to writing books for general public consumption.
		In future, I intend to review significant books by professional scientists as they are published and also from time to time to return to classic popular science texts of the last few decades for a re-evaluation.
	www.alternativescience.com /book-reviews.htm (158 words)

	Review of Robert Park's Voodoo Science
		The following is a review of Robert L. Park's Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud that I wrote for Amazon.com.
		Much of experimental science consists of devising tests to ensure that an experimental outcome is not the result of some subtle artifact of the experiment or its interpretation.
		Science on the Edge" that discussed, among other topics, precognition and psychokinesis.
	www.suppressedscience.net /voodooscience.html (2268 words)

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