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The undergrowth of science : delusion, self-deception, and human frailty / Walter Gratzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gratzer, W. B. (Walter Bruno), 1932-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History.
- Science.
- History.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This insightful and often amusing book looks at why good scientists often go wrong, recounting the blind alleys that honest, dedicated researchers have wandered down. Photos and line illustrations.
- Contents:
- Introduction.
- Blondlot and the n-rays.
- Paradigms enow : some mirages of biology.
- Aberrations of physics : Irving Langmuir investigates.
- Nor any drop to drink : the tale of polywater.
- The wilder shores of credulity.
- Energy unlimited.
- What the doctor ordered.
- Science, chauvinism and bigotry.
- The climate of fear.
- Science in the Third Reich : bigotry, racism and extinction.
- Nature nurtured : the rise and fall of eugenics.
- Envoi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-321) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198507070
- OCLC:
- 43729082
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