Voodoo Science: The road from foolishness to fraud

This book examines the social, economic and political forces that elicit or support flawed or fake science and sustain it in the face of often overwhelming contrary evidence. Voodoo Science is intended to include pseudoscience, or irrational beliefs dressed up in scientific garb, the misuse of science to deliberately mislead or confuse, and pathological science, in which scientists persist with their interpretations long after the evidence has decisively ruled against them in the perspectives of an objective observer. The book attempts to delineate the contexts in which fraud can arise in science, and also to assess the trends in the Public’s ability to assess scientific issues and integrate scientific understanding in their judgements and world view.

Publisher: Oxford University press
Date Published: 2000
Book Condition: Near fine hardcover with some minor surface and edge wear to dust jacket. A fine copy internally.