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Bad Science: A Brief History of Bizarre Misconceptions, Totally Wrong Conclusions, and Incredibly Stupid Theories

By Linda Zimmermann

Book information

Publisher
Eagle Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0979900247, 9780979900242
Google Books ID
F7ZIYgEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1094924 bytes)
Pages
224\0
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

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2011 Silver Medal Winner for Humor, from the Independent Publisher's Awards. Bad Science: A Brief History of Bizarre Misconceptions, Totally Wrong Conclusions, and Incredibly Stupid Theories takes a humorous look at bloodletting, alchemy, quack devices, the worship of meteorites, faked data, secret testing on people, and all kinds of really ridiculous ideas. From the ancient Greeks to the present, the history of science has been fraught with persecution, fraud, and ignorance on a massive scale--but that doesn't mean we can't laugh about it!

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