02921cam a2200517M 4500 111597 111597 BJBSDDR 20230411090041.0 ta 050425r20012000enkac 001 0 eng d 0198604351 9780198604358 UNITY 032905912 BIRCL 0198604351 COVCL 0198604351 UKLBS 0198604351 UKGRN 0198604351 LGL 0198604351 UKBFB 0198604351 UKBHC 0198604351 UKSTC 0198604351 LEICL 0198604351 LEICL ba154185 UKHUL 0198604351 (OCoLC)ocm59530472 (OCoLC)59530472 UKV3G UKV3G spa spa GRAL Q 125 G773u 2000 509 21 Gratzer, Walter. The undergrowth of science : delusion, self-deception, and human frailty / Walter Gratzer. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000 (2001 [printing]) ix, 328 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Blondlot and the N-Rays -- 2. Paradigms Enow: Some Mirages of Biology. Gurvich and his mitogenic radiation. The curse of the death-ray. Abderhalden and the protective enzymes. The case of the amorous toad. Memory transfer, or eat your mathematics -- 3. Aberrations of Physics: Irving Langmuir Investigates. Capturing electrons. Alison's magneto-optical effect. Langmuir's rules -- 4. Nor any Drop to Drink: the Tale of Polywater -- 5. The Wilder Shores of Credulity -- 6. Energy Unlimited -- 7. What the Doctor Ordered -- 8. Science, Chauvinism and Bigotry -- 9. The Climate of Fear. The tragedy of Soviet genetics. The spread of the contagion. Soviet physics: idealism, pragmatism and the bomb. Is there a Marxist chemistry? -- 10. Science in the Third Reich: Bigotry, Racism and Extinction. The roots of fascist biology. The Ahnenerbe: Himmler the intellectual. Die deutsche Physik, its friends and enemies. A deutsche Chemie. Anti-Semitism and mathematics. The consequences of the Nazi incursion into science -- 11. Nature Nurtured: the Rise and Fall of Eugenics. The birth of eugenics. Eugenics and politics in Europe and America. Eugenics in the Third Reich. Eugenic nemesis in the Soviet Union. The rise and fall of eugenics: a pathological science. Tells the stories of incidents in the history of scientific discovery in which faulty conclusions were reached by scientists who, despite evidence to the contrary, insisted their findings were correct. Science History. Ciencia Historia 1190 Ciencia Filosofía. 98 Science Philosophy. Errors, Scientific. lcc BK G773u 2000 PP 0 0 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-11 0 Q 125 G773u 2000 00000065077 2019-02-17 00:00:00 1 2019-02-17 BK