The delusion, self-deception, and human frailty Gratzer, Walter. creator text enk Oxford Oxford University Press 2000 (2001 [printing]) 2001 monographic eng spa

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ix, 328 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm. 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. 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. Walter Gratzer. Includes bibliographical references and index. Science History Ciencia Historia Ciencia Filosofía Science Philosophy Errors, Scientific Q 125 G773u 2000 509 0198604351 9780198604358 UKV3G 050425 20230411090041.0 spa