Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic
| AUTHOR | Gardner, Martin |
| PUBLISHER | Prometheus Books (10/01/1996) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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At a time when popular knowledge of basic science has sunk to a new low and books promoting angels, parapsychology, and bizarre forms of medicine and healing outnumber skeptical books by more than a thousand to one, Americans need a voice of sanity.Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic introduces readers to mind-wrenching probability paradoxes, recent attacks on the Big Bang Theory, and Marianne Williamson's success promoting The Course of Miracles, which is said to have been channeled by Jesus. Other columns address E-prime, a language that omits all forms of the verb "to be"; Norman Vincent Peale's beliefs in the paranormal; repressed memory therapy; science blunders by famous writers; the influence of Transcendental Meditation on the career of Doug Henning; a critique of "Klingon" and other artificial languages; and much more.
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ISBN-13:
9781573920964
ISBN-10:
1573920967
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
260
Carton Quantity:
4
Product Dimensions:
6.35 x 1.05 x 9.33 inches
Weight:
1.00 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Annotated,
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Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Science | General
Science | American - General
Dewey Decimal:
081
Library of Congress Control Number:
96031113
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Internationally acclaimed science writer Martin Gardner contributes a regular column titled "The Skeptical Eye" for the journal Skeptical Inquiry. Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic is a collection of this material, with a wide range of topics including the "Klingon" artificial language, science blunders by famous writers, recent attacks on the Big Bang theory, and the influence of The Course of Miracles and Transcendental Meditation.
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Never before has American education in science sunk so low, or the flood of books about bogus science risen so high. Books discrediting the paranormal are outnumbered by those promoting astrology, angels, parapsychology, bizarre forms of medicine and healing, the prophecies of Nostradamus, the secrets of the Great Pyramid, attacks on evolution, and scores of similar follies. Martin Gardner is among those science writers who believe that this tide of irrationality needs to be stemmed by informed writing. For years Gardner has authored the "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" column for Skeptical Inquirer magazine. Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher is a collection of Gardner's columns, to which are added thirty recent reviews of books that deal with science, philosophy, theology, and the paranormal.
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At a time when popular knowledge of basic science has sunk to a new low and books promoting angels, parapsychology, and bizarre forms of medicine and healing outnumber skeptical books by more than a thousand to one, Americans need a voice of sanity.Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic introduces readers to mind-wrenching probability paradoxes, recent attacks on the Big Bang Theory, and Marianne Williamson's success promoting The Course of Miracles, which is said to have been channeled by Jesus. Other columns address E-prime, a language that omits all forms of the verb "to be"; Norman Vincent Peale's beliefs in the paranormal; repressed memory therapy; science blunders by famous writers; the influence of Transcendental Meditation on the career of Doug Henning; a critique of "Klingon" and other artificial languages; and much more.
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Author:
Gardner, Martin
Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books, including Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, The Annotated Alice, The Annotated Hunting of the Snark, and The Colossal Book of Mathematics. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
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