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The main ways that people can corrupt science - or at least try to - are through hoax and fraud, both of which may be perpetrated by laymen or scientists, and through ideological and political corruption, whose intent in both instances is to mislead the public and both of which may be either deliberate or self-deceiving.In this sequel to John Grant's highly successful Discarded Science - Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time , we are introduced to the world of fraud and deception rather than the gentler realms of mistake and ignorance. As ever, Grant is entertaining but the theme is serious and timely.Written by an expert for everyone interested in the history of scientific thinking and the evolution of ideas and theories which affect all of us, it was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stand out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, and Bush's America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that - John Grant, 2007.

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Award-winning author of many non-fiction books on film, art and fantasy, and of some 20 fantasy novels, Scottish-born John Grant lives in New Jersey, USA. He is an expert on film and animation, and is author of numerous books in that field including Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters (three editions), Masters of Animation and three titles in the Facts, Figures & Fun series: Sci-Fi Movies, Animated Movies and Noir Movies. He was co-editor of the award-winning The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and co-author of AAPPL's award-winning The Chesley Awards: A Retrospective.He has won the Hugo Award (twice), the World Fantasy Award, the Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award, the J. Lloyd Eaton Scholarship Award, the Locus Award, the Chesley Award, and a British Science Fiction Association Special Award.

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