Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, 2nd Edition PDF

By Martin Gardner

ISBN-10: 0486203948

ISBN-13: 9780486203942

This reasonable and witty appraisal examines the various crazes and quackeries that experience masqueraded as technological know-how. Discussions include hollow earth theories; Charles fortress and the Fortean Society; Wilhelm Reich and orgone intercourse energy; dianetics; flying saucers; food and clinical fads; even more. "A very capable and even-tempered presentation." — the recent Yorker.

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The evil Convert murders Arietta Fogg, and the good Convert is arrested for the crime. He is electrocuted one minute before Arietta Wright arrives with the evil Convert's confession. But John Convert's little band of followers have remained loyal through it all, and Arietta Wright dedicates her life and wealth to carrying on the great cause. John Convert dies wishing he could have another body in which to continue his work. " Soon after he published this novel, Lawson began an astonishing career in aviation.

Are due to these two forces. " Sound is another substance similarly drawn into the ear. Gravity? " In fact, Lawson candidly admits, "When one studies . . Lawsonomy. . all problems theoretically concocted in connection with Physics will fade away. " The human body, as might be expected, operates by means of thousands of little Suction and Pressure pumps. Air is sucked into the lungs, food into the stomach, and blood around the body. Each cell contains minute pumps. Waste matter is, of course, eliminated by Pressure.

In a P-51 fighter plane. The object rose rapidly. Mantell followed it to 18,000 feet, then radioed to the ground, "Going to 20,000 feet. " That was the last message from him. Apparently he blacked out in the high altitude, and after reaching about 30,000 feet the plane went into a fatal dive. At first the military forces brushed aside the flying-saucer mania as mass delusion, but after the reports grew to vast proportions, the Air Force set up a "Project Saucer" to make a careful investigation.

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