TY  - BOOK
AU  - Youngson,R.M.
TI  - Scientific blunders: a brief history of how wrong scientists can sometimes be-- 
SN  - 0786705949
U1  - 509 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Carroll & Graf
KW  - Errors, Scientific
KW  - Errors
KW  - sears
KW  - Science
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-330) and index; Star errors -- They laughed at Wegener -- The flat earth theory -- Getting the calendar wrong -- Why is the sky dark at night? -- Lord Kelvin's time-bomb fizzles out -- The CIA and UFOs -- The great Lamarck blunder -- Soapy Sam's defeat -- Who was G.W. Sleeper? -- Piltdown -- What killed the dinosaurs -- Hero and the prime mover -- A galvanic error -- Perpetual motion -- Which way is down? -- Newton got it wrong -- The great AC/DC blunder -- The heat fallacies -- The n-ray blunder -- The importance of ether -- Atomic notions -- The cold fusion affair -- Euclid got it wrong -- Any fool can use the differential calculus -- The destruction of Alan Turing -- The millennium date blunder -- The four elements -- The historical oxygen blunder -- A pathological modesty -- Alchemy's failure -- Isaac Newton, alchemist -- A martyr to chemistry -- Spermatic homunculi -- Wishful thinking of a biologist -- The protein gene blunder -- Francis Galton's great misconception -- The Lysenko blunder -- The wrong dogma -- The SV40 near miss -- Magnets for toothache -- The opium blunder -- The Charcot shaker and the Tourette trembler -- The syphilis scandal; Adult; Follett Library Resources
N2  - Describes cases where the brightest scientific minds reached wrong conclusions from the belief that the earth is flat to the cold fusion affair in the 1980s
ER  -