Re: (Tears) Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner

On 28/04/2024 21:51, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 10:10:29 -0700, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
 

In article <v0lhko$sat$1@panix2.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
>

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

>
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.

 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.
 Not quite sainthood but close...

Just to warn though, he is not the only
Professor Martin Gardner.  So, something
with his name on may be not from this
Martin Gardner.