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Voodoo Science : The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
by Robert L. Park
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Scientific error, says Robert Park, "has a way of evolving ... from self-delusion to fraud. I use the term voodoo science to cover them all: pathological science, junk science, pseudoscience, and fraudulent science." In pathological science, scientists fool themselves. Junk science refers to scientists who use their expertise to befuddle and mislead others (usually juries or lawmakers). Pseudoscience has the trappings of science without any evidence. Fraudulent science is, well, fraud--old-fashioned lying.
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The Mind of God : The Scientific Basis for a Rational World
by Paul Davies
Pursuing the eternal quest of Western thought to comprehend the origin and design of the universe, Davies probes into the essential nature of scientific inquiry and the role of man in interpreting the cosmos. A provocative synthesis of science, philosophy, and theology, by the bestselling author of God and the New Physics.
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Relativity : An Introduction to Space-Time Physics
by Steve Adams
This book provides an introduction to relativistic physics. The author explains the physical concepts and explains the mathematics behind the theory. For the serious deep thinker this is graduate level material.
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The Strange Story of the Quantum; An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge
by Banesh Hoffmann
Completely non-mathematical yet wholly faithful to the basic concepts of quantum mechanics, this book tells the fascinating
story of the "new" physics. By means of analogies, examples, and imaginative insights, the book acquaints the layman with the historical development and basic meaning of such momentous theories as Bohr's energy levels of the atom and Feynman's world lines, electron spin, and the quantum number.
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