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100 1 _aYoungson, R. M.
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245 1 0 _aScientific blunders :
_ba brief history of how wrong scientists can sometimes be-- /
_cRobert M. Youngson.
250 _a1st Carroll & Graf ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bCarroll & Graf,
_c1998.
300 _axiv, 338 p ;
_c20 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-330) and index.
505 2 _aStar 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.
520 _aDescribes 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.
521 2 _aAdult
_bFollett Library Resources.
650 0 _aErrors, Scientific.
_925790
650 7 _aErrors.
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650 7 _aScience.
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