Author: Gratzer, Walter
Title: The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, (2000). orig.boards. 24x15cm, ix, 328 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Blondlot & the N-Rays; Paradigms Enow: Some Mirages of Biology; Aberrations of Physics: Irving Langmuir Investigates; Nor Any Drop to Drink: The Tale of Polywater; The Wilder Shores of Credulity; Energy Unlimited; What the Doctor Ordered? Science, Chauvinism & Bigotry; The Climate of Fear; Science in the Third Reich: Bigotry, Racism & Extinction; Nature Nurtured: The Rise & Fall of Eugenics.

Keywords: History of Science, Scientific, Controversies, Controversial, Pseudo-science, Unorthodox, , ,