Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries? – Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscie: ... Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics - Hardcover
In a society begging to be duped, an inspiration to those who praise common sense over myth and superstition. Martin Gardner"one of the most brilliant men and gracious writers I have ever known," wrote Stephen Jay Gouldis the wittiest, most devastating debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery of our time. In this new book Gardner explores startling scientific concepts, such as the possibility of multiple universes and the theory that time can go backwards. Armed with his expert, skeptical eye, he examines the bizarre tangents produced by Freudians and deconstructionists in their critiques of "Little Red Riding Hood," and reveals the fallacies of pseudoscientific cures, from Dr. Bruno Bettelheim's erroneous theory of autism to the cruel farces of Facilitated Communication and Primal Scream Therapy. Ever prolific, and still engaging at the spry age of eighty-eight, Gardner has become an American institution unto himself, a writer to be celebrated. 30 b/w illustrations.
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"Even as Gardner exposes the foolishness and cruelties of phony science, he praises with awe and wonder the work of true science in revealing ... the natural world."
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Martin Gardner, debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery, explores in this title startling scientific concepts, such as the possibility of multiple universes and the theory that time can go backwards. Armed with his expert, sceptical eye, he examines the bizarre tangents produced by Freudians and deconstructionists in their critiques of "Little Red Riding Hood" and reveals the fallacies of pseudoscientific cures, from Doctor Bruno Bettelheim's erroneous theory of autism to the cruel farces of Facilitated Communication and Primal Scream Therapy.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0393057429
- ISBN 13 9780393057423
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. First edition. Quarter cloth, 352 pp. In the essays that comprise this collection?many of which originally appeared in The Skeptical Inquirer, Scientific American, and the Los Angeles Times?Martin Gardner spans the realms of science and mathematics, literature, philosophy, religion, and mysticism. He examines such scientific concepts as the possibility of multiple universes and the theory that time can go backward, and skewers Dr. Bruno Bettelheim's theory of autism, Primal Scream Therapy, and Uri Geller, who claimed to bend spoons with his mind. Offering several literary appreciations, Gardner lovingly recalls the Tin Woodman from The Wizard of Oz, Chesterton's classic The Man Who Was Thursday, and the neglected mysteries of British suspense writer, Edgar Wallace. New in new dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 009547
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. First edition. Quarter cloth, 352 pp. In the essays that comprise this collection?many of which originally appeared in The Skeptical Inquirer, Scientific American, and the Los Angeles Times?Martin Gardner spans the realms of science and mathematics, literature, philosophy, religion, and mysticism. He examines such scientific concepts as the possibility of multiple universes and the theory that time can go backward, and skewers Dr. Bruno Bettelheim's theory of autism, Primal Scream Therapy, and Uri Geller, who claimed to bend spoons with his mind. Offering several literary appreciations, Gardner lovingly recalls the Tin Woodman from The Wizard of Oz, Chesterton's classic The Man Who Was Thursday, and the neglected mysteries of British suspense writer, Edgar Wallace. New in new dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 009548
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