Voodoo science: the road from foolishness to fraud
Auteur :
University of Maryland
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198604433
Date de publication :
21 mars 2002
Dimensions :
19,5 x 12,8 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
264 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Presents an examination of the social, economic, and political forces that elicit or support flawed or fake science and sustain it in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence. This book includes pseudoscience, or irrational beliefs dressed up in scientific garb, the misuse of science to deliberately mislead, and pathological science.