Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in ihe Courtroom - Softcover

Huber, Peter W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465026249 ISBN 13: 9780465026241

Publisher: Basic Books, 1993

Synopsis

A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have used—and the courts have accepted—spurious claims by so-called expert witnesses to win astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived us all of superior technologies and effective, life-saving therapies.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This is a book about scientific cranks and iconoclasts who peddle their strange diagnostics and quack cures not at country fairs but in courtrooms across the land.

About the Author:

Peter Huber is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, where he specializes in issues related to technology, science, and law. His previous books include Hard Green, Liability, and Galileo's Revenge. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Peter W. Huber, an M.I.T.-trained engineer and a Harvard law graduate, has also taught at M.I.T. and formerly clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. A Manhattan Institute Fellow, he lives in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0465026249
• ISBN 13: 9780465026241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288