[TowerTalk] Bad science - Other Great books

[Ed - K0iL]

My apologizes for this off topic book list, but these are REALLY good books 
on this subject/thread.

This one's hard to find (I had to order it):
"Science Under Siege" by Michael Fumento (1993/in paperback) Quill 
publishing
Subtitled: "How the Environmental Misinformation Campaign Is Affecting Our 
Laws, Taxes, and Our Daily Life."   Topics covered: Alar, cancer testing, 
epidemiology, Dioxin, Love Canal, & Electric and Magnetic Fields among 
others...

The other is "Why People Believe Weird Things" by Michael Shermer
subtitled: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

I'm now reading DX-Aku which is full of silly superstition, but I'm 
enjoying it anyway!
(There, a ham radio reference! -- All is well....)

73,
de ed -K0iL

EUGENE  SMAR [SMTP:SPELUNK.SUENO@prodigy.net] wrote:
> Read The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan, for an excellent treatment 
of
> pseudo-science and its practitioners.
> 73 de
> Gene Smar  AD3F
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilmer, Mike <mgilmer@gnlp.com>
> >WA9ALS - John [SMTP:jfleming@shelbynet.net] wrote:
> >Some days I don't even try anymore - you just can't
> >> tell people something they believe in is wrong.
> >A lot of this kind of sentiment is fueled by the predisposition many 
have
> to
> >believing in conspiracy theories.  Because so many now-debunked myths 
(e.g.
> >the Pearl Harbor sneak attack or that radiation from high-tension lines
> >causes birth defects) are started by established "authorities" (for 
their
> >own personal/political/business gains) it's easier for all wacky ideas 
to
> be taken seriously and serious science to be ignored.
> >Mike
> >n2mg@contesting.com

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