Galileo's Revenge Junk Science in Ihe Courtroom

Name: Galileo's Revenge Junk Science in Ihe Courtroom
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ISBN: 9780465026241

ISBN-10: 0465026249

ISBN-13: 9780465026241

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Peter W. Huber

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This is a book about scientific cranks and iconoclasts who peddle their strange diagnostics and quack cures not at country fairs but in courtrooms across the land.

Book details

List price: $21.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 3/24/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.15" wide x 4.88" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Introduction



the Lawyer and the Scientist Trade Places



Liability Science: Better Living Through Litigation



the Science of Things That Aren't So Junk Science and Its Origins



Law and Pseudoscience



the Midas Touch How Money Causes Disease



Sudden Acceleration: Runaway Panic in the Mass Media



Gadgets and Knives Cashing in on Magical Cures






Nausea the Massed Legal Attack



the Paranoia Plebiscite the Legal Pursuit of Fad Terrors






the Rule of Fact



the Cargo Cult Does Liability Science Work?



Stopping Points Confronting Malpractice on the Witness Stand



Science and Certitude


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index