Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience - Softcover

Gardner, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393322386 ISBN 13: 9780393322385

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

Synopsis

"[Gardner] zaps his targets with laserlike precision and wit."―Entertainment Weekly

Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. Here he muses on topics as diverse as numerology, New Age anthropology, and the late Senator Claiborne Pell's obsession with UFOs, as he mines Americans' seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bad science. Gardner's funny, brilliantly unsettling exposés of reflexology and urine therapy should be required reading for anyone interested in "alternative" medicine. In a world increasingly tilted toward superstition, Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? will give those of us who prize logic and common sense immense solace and inspiration. "Gardner is a national treasure...I wish [this] could be made compulsory reading in every high school―and in Congress."―Arthur C. Clarke "Nobody alive has done more than Gardner to spread the understanding and appreciation of mathematics, and to dispel superstition."― The New Criterion, John Derbyshire

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Gardner (1914-2010) is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on Lewis Carroll and his work. The author of more than a hundred books, he wrote the "Mathematical Games" column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and has been hailed by Douglas Hofstadter as "one of the great intellects produced in this country in this century."

Review:

Gardner is a national treasure...I wish [this] could be made compulsory reading in every high school—and in Congress. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Nobody alive has done more than Gardner to spread the understanding and appreciation of mathematics, and to dispel superstition. -- The New Criterion, John Derbyshire

[Gardner] zaps his targets with laserlike precision and wit. -- Entertainment Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0393322386
• ISBN 13: 9780393322385
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352