An entertaining book about how pseudoscience gets going. Chapters cover these topics:
- how the media cover science
- how science helps us sort out the truth
- people turn to "natural" medicine
- people dream of artificial worlds
- U.S. Congress seeks to repeal the laws of thermodynamics
- people dream of infinite free energy
- power lines are suspected of causing cancer
- U.S. courts confront "junk science"
- voodoo science is protected by official secrecy
- ancient superstitions re-appear as pseudoscience

The author, Robert Park, has a regular online column, "What's New," about scientific foolishness at What's New Science News (Web site).

This book is part of my permanent collection.

Other books:
- Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
- Fallacies of Creationism, an excellent book by Willard Young

See also Creationist Lies and Blunders (Web site)

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