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    • Monday, May 02, 2005

    Yes, We Have No Neutrons
    An Eye Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Bad Science
    by A. K. Dewdney
    Sometimes the public seizes something it takes to be outstanding science which has no real scientific merit. It can take years for the public to realize its error. Dewdney presents 8 such errors: n-rays, IQ, psychoanalysis, SETI, neural nets, cold fusion, Biosphere 2, and the Bell Curve. Dewdney's method for dissecting these differ greatly. In some he explains what happened how they went wrong, and why they were wrong, and in some he doesn't. For some his explanations are cogent and sensible, and for some they aren't. Overall, if Dewdney's book is held to the standards he has for science, this is a bad book.
    The chapter most worth reading is that on cold fusion.
    Happy reading.

    posted by Jonah  # 11:18 AM
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