Gardner, Martin “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science”


 

Brief review to be added of Martin Gardner's book “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science” (1957) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK). (Enlarged Revision of “In the Name of Science” (1952.0000))

 

 

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

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Book References

For discussion of “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science” see the following:

 

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1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 65 (in Chapter 3) of the Wiley softcover edition.

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2001

Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 77 (in Chapter 3) of the California hardback edition.

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2001

Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 185-186 (in an entry entitled “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 182-183 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

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2001

Fitzgerald, Randall in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 223 (in an entry entitled“Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

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1998

Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 293 (in Section 4) with a one sentence summary at page 376 (in the Guide To Books) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition.

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1995

Friedlander, Michael W in his “At the Fringes of Science” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 89 (in Chapter 8) of the Westview hardback edition.

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1997

Sagan, Carl in his “The Demon Haunted World” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 67-68 (in Chapter 4) of the Headline softcover edition.

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2005

Shermer, Michael in his “Science Friction : Where the known meets the unknown” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 59, 60-61 (in Chapter 4) of the Times Books hardback edition.

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2001

Shermer, Michael in his “The Borderlands of Science” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-51, 54-56 (in Chapter 2) of the Oxford University Press hardback edition.

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