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Review from previous edition Park sets the formulas aside to get at the essence of scientific thinking, and shows through real life examples how people (including scientists) are led astray. Psychology Today September 2000 this book is entertaining and provocative reading Redaktion Angewadte Chemie No. 6 2002 It is an admirable analysis: wittily written, vivid and put together without a hint of malice. The Observer, 17/03/2002 ..page by page the book is a source of great pleasure. Park is a superb storyteller, he writes gracefully with energy and charm, and the varieties of silliness he chronicles are fascinating. Most scientists will enjoy the book immensely. Nature 7 September 2000 Professor Park does more than debunk, he crucifies...You'll never again waste time or your money on astrologers, 'quantum healers', homeopaths, spoonbenders, perpetual motion merchants, or alien-abduction fantasists. Richard Dawkins addictively entertaining...a brave and brilliant quest The Times 12 October 2000 If you want more books on sideways thinking, go straight to Robert Park's excellent Voodoo Science: The road from foolishness to fraud. New Scientist 18/11/00 ...a brave and witty quest to alert us to the nonsense being dressed up as science...It is an addictively entertaining read, and a must for anyone who thinks that shuffling their houseplants around will bring them love and a lottery win in 2001. Times Books, 6th December 2000 This book was a joy and an entertainment. I read it like a good novel coupled with the sense of self-improvement...This book I didn't want to end and its review was a labour of love. Prof Michael Baum, Healthwatch Newsletter April 2001

`Review from previous edition Park sets the formulas aside to get at the essence of scientific thinking, and shows through real life examples how people (including scientists) are led astray.' Psychology Today September 2000 `this book is entertaining and provocative reading' Redaktion Angewadte Chemie No. 6 2002 `It is an admirable analysis: wittily written, vivid and put together without a hint of malice.' The Observer, 17/03/2002 `..page by page the book is a source of great pleasure. Park is a superb storyteller, he writes gracefully with energy and charm, and the varieties of silliness he chronicles are fascinating. Most scientists will enjoy the book immensely.' Nature 7 September 2000 `Professor Park does more than debunk, he crucifies...You'll never again waste time or your money on astrologers, 'quantum healers', homeopaths, spoonbenders, perpetual motion merchants, or alien-abduction fantasists.' Richard Dawkins `addictively entertaining...a brave and brilliant quest' The Times 12 October 2000 `If you want more books on sideways thinking, go straight to Robert Park's excellent Voodoo Science: The road from foolishness to fraud.' New Scientist 18/11/00 `...a brave and witty quest to alert us to the nonsense being dressed up as science...It is an addictively entertaining read, and a must for anyone who thinks that shuffling their houseplants around will bring them love and a lottery win in 2001.' Times Books, 6th December 2000 `This book was a joy and an entertainment. I read it like a good novel coupled with the sense of self-improvement...This book I didn't want to end and its review was a labour of love.' Prof Michael Baum, Healthwatch Newsletter April 2001

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Regular newspaper columnist, frequent radio/television commentator, and an official spokesman for the American Physical Society. He writes a controversial weekly electronic commentary on science issues that is widely read by scientists, science journalists and government officials. He writes a regular column on ""Bad Science"" for the Washington Post.

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