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Science 2 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5471, p. 1595
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5471.1595a
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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Unreal Science

A review by Kenneth R. Foster

Voodoo Science The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
Robert Park
Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. 240 pp. $25. ISBN 0-19-513515-6.

In this collection of essays written for a general audience, Park uses examples of pathological science to launch far-reaching discussions of science and society.
The author is in the Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 120 Hayden Hall, 3320 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail: kfoster{at}seas.upenn.edu

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