The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

Paperback • 1957 • English • 2. edition

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

By Martin Gardner

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

"Although we are amused, we may also be embarrassed to find our friends or even ourselves among the gullible advocates of plausible-sounding doubletalk." — Saturday Review "A very able and even-tempered presentation." — New Yorker This witty and engaging book examines the various fads, fallacies, strange cults, and curious panaceas which at one time or another have masqueraded as science. Not just a collection of anecdotes but a fair, reasoned appraisal of eccentric theory, i...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780486203942

Publisher

Courier Corporation

Published year

1957

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

Pseudoscience A Very Short Introduction

Pseudoscience A Very Short Introduction

Michael D. Gordin

Everything You Know About Science is Wrong

Everything You Know About Science is Wrong

Matt Brown

Mythomania

Mythomania

Peter Conrad

Suspicious Minds

Suspicious Minds

Rob Brotherton

Scams from the Great Beyond

Scams from the Great Beyond

Peter Huston

Quirkology

Quirkology

Richard Wiseman

Canto Classics

Canto Classics

Harry Collins

Paranormality

Paranormality

Richard Wiseman

When the Earth Was Flat

When the Earth Was Flat

Graeme Donald

Meaning in Absurdity What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality

Meaning in Absurdity What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality

Bernard Kastrup

13 Things That Don't Make Sense

13 Things That Don't Make Sense

Michael Brooks

Beyond the Hoax Science, Philosophy and Culture

Beyond the Hoax Science, Philosophy and Culture

Alan D. Sokal

Against method

Against method

Paul Feyerabend

13 Things that Don't Make Sense The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

13 Things that Don't Make Sense The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

Michael Brooks

Paradoxes

Paradoxes

R. M. Sainsbury

Don't Get Fooled Again: The Sceptic's Guide to Life

Don't Get Fooled Again: The Sceptic's Guide to Life

Richard Wilson

The Meaning of It All

The Meaning of It All

Richard P. Feynman

What We Believe But Cannot Prove Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

What We Believe But Cannot Prove Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

John Brockman

Math hysteria

Math hysteria

Ian Stewart

The Skeptic's Dictionary A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions

The Skeptic's Dictionary A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions

Robert Carroll

Unintelligent Design

Unintelligent Design

Mark Perakh

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Karl Popper

Colossal book of mathematics

Colossal book of mathematics

Martin Gardner

The Nature Fakers Wildlife, Science & Sentiment

The Nature Fakers Wildlife, Science & Sentiment

Ralph H. Lutts

Heavenly Errors Misconceptions about the Real Nature of the Universe

Heavenly Errors Misconceptions about the Real Nature of the Universe

Neil F. Comins

The Demon-Haunted World

The Demon-Haunted World

Carl Sagan

Mathematical puzzle tales

Mathematical puzzle tales

Martin Gardner

Everything Is Under Control

Everything Is Under Control

Robert Anton

The Fortean Times Book of Bizarre Behaviour

The Fortean Times Book of Bizarre Behaviour

Brian Simmons

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Alan Sokal

Mathematical fallacies and paradoxes

Mathematical fallacies and paradoxes

Bryan Bunch

The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics

The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics

David Wells

The Faber Book of Science

The Faber Book of Science

John Carey

Labyrinths of Reason Paradox, Puzzles and the Frailty of Knowledge

Labyrinths of Reason Paradox, Puzzles and the Frailty of Knowledge

William Poundstone

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

Douglas R Hofstadter

Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions

Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions

James Randi

From Paracelsus to Newton

From Paracelsus to Newton

Charles Webster

Dianetik

Dianetik

L. Ron Hubbard

The new Apocrypha : a guide to strange science and occult beliefs

The new Apocrypha : a guide to strange science and occult beliefs

John Sladek