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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud ReviewWe live in the most technologically advanced country in the world, yet our citizens seem to be extremely scientifically illiterate. Does it seem possible that congress would hold a hearing on why a gentleman was refused a patent on a machine that seemingly has a higher energy output than input, which violates the first law of thermodynamics? I have often laughed at the Indiana legislature that many, many years ago passed a law fixing pi at 3.14. But here is Trent Lott and his pompous brethren now holding a hearing on a machine that the physicists of the nation have said is a fraud. As is typical at a congressional hearing the egocentric politicians made speeches instead of asking questions. Then Senator Glenn asked a few pertinent questions that caused the committee to finally sniff disaster. The matter was dropped. Later there was another hearing on the cold fusion matter in which congress was again embarrassed by its total scientific ignorance. How did our fine representatives react to being publicly humiliated by these science debacles? Well, in 1995 they abolished the Office of Technology Assessment whose purpose was to advise congress on scientific and technical issues. Why seek advice when you are already infallible?
This book provides the reader with a variety of scientific frauds that have hoodwinked not only congress, but also the nation. Sadly the media often further the cause of misinformation by presenting untruths as truths. They find it much more entertaining to present pseudo-science in a manner that suggests it might all be for real. Mr. Park also discusses how the media helped create the flurry over Electromagnetic Force (EMF) which proved to be total ado over nothing (a good book to read on how the media creates phony epidemics and trends is Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner). The author also decries the efforts of New Agers to misappropriate the terms of physics to espouse their theories (read also an interesting chapter on junk science in Wendy Kaminer's book Sleeping With Extraterrestrials.)
This is an excellent read for those interested in real science, even though the scientific stupidities presented will have you pulling your hair and rending your garments. The problem with the book is that it is much too short. Park just gets going, and whoops its page 213 and time to stop. This topic could easily fill a volume twice as thick. Let's hope there is a sequel.
Oh... one other matter. Another reviewer is distressed at author Park's dismissal of ESP when there is "a good body of hard evidence to support it". Park dismisses it because, as he states, the National Academy of Sciences undertook a complete review of all of the literature on the subject going back 130 years, and could find no scientific justification for its existence in the research that was studied. Park goes on to discuss why some people hang on desperately to theories despite continual research failures.Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud Overview

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