Books that made me think: Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
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I read this wonderful book about fifty years ago, when, as an impressionable teenager, I might have fallen for some of the alluring nonsense that the author Martin Gardner demolishes in this volume.
It helped orient me in my thinking about the world. (Regrettably, it only worked part-way, as I soon fell for a different sort of alluring nonsense than that taken apart by Gardner, but you can't have everything.)
High school science classes should take up some of the issues dealt with in this book, or similar ones.
It's pointless being able to define a joule in Standard Units if you have not carefully worked through just what the word "energy" means, or if you do not know how a plausible-sounding explanation should be tested for validity.
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
It helped orient me in my thinking about the world. (Regrettably, it only worked part-way, as I soon fell for a different sort of alluring nonsense than that taken apart by Gardner, but you can't have everything.)
High school science classes should take up some of the issues dealt with in this book, or similar ones.
It's pointless being able to define a joule in Standard Units if you have not carefully worked through just what the word "energy" means, or if you do not know how a plausible-sounding explanation should be tested for validity.
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
