Voodoo science : the road from foolishness to fraud / Robert L. Park.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

x, 230 pages ; 25 cm

Includes index.

It's not news, it's entertainment : in which the media covers voodoo science -- The belief gene : in which science offers a strategy for sorting out the truth -- Placebos have side effects : in which people turn to "natural" medicine -- The virtual astronaut : in which people dream of artificial worlds -- There ought to be a law : in which Congress seeks to repeal the laws of thermodynamics -- Perpetuum mobile : in which people dream of infinite free energy -- Currents of fear : in which power lines are suspected of causing cancer -- Judgment day : in which the courts confront "junk science" -- Only mushrooms grow in the dark : in which voodoo science in protected by official secrecy -- How strange is the universe? : in which ancient superstitions reappear as pseudoscience.