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.
- ISBN10 0393057429
- ISBN13 9780393057423
- Publish Date 5 August 2003
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 16 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English