Re: (Tears) Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 13:51:17 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 10:10:29 -0700, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
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In article <v0lhko$sat$1@panix2.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
 
A survey of an era overrun by cranks, charlatans, and legions of
wilfully gullible fools. A bit off topic, but significant SF figures
appear in the text.
 
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/all-the-madmen

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I read many of the same books you did (at least the right wing books)
and I am neither an anti-vaxxer nor do I scream vile epithets at
anybody. I don't believe I have read this book, though I read reviews of
it in several SF magazines.

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Ditto - and having read Martin Gardner's work in Scientific American
over multiple decades you could convince me to read most anything with
his name on it.
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Not quite sainthood but close...

Sadly, his later work in /Skeptical Inquirer/ was ... not as
memorable.

And I found /The Annotated Alice/ to be ... not actually worth it.

But I did like his SA columns!
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"