Book Reviews

New Books

Watermelons

How environmentalists are killing the planet, destroying the economy and stealing your children’s future.

Biteback Publishing 2012

ISBN 978-1-8495-217-3

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And now, the good news!

The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment

By Craig D. Idso & Sherwood B. Idso

Published by Vales Lake Publishing

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Our Gaderine generation

Scared to Death
by Christopher Booker and Richard North,

Continuum UK, 2007, ISBN 0 8264 8614 2.

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Almost a great book

The great cholesterol con

By Anthony Colpo, 2006

UK ISBN 978 1 4116 9475 0

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More damned lies and statistics: how numbers confuse public issues

By Joel Best

University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 0 520 23830 3

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The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

The True Story of DDT, PCB and DIOXIN

By Przemysłav Mastalerz

ISBN 83-905776-5-8

WYDAWNICTO CHEMICZNE

Wrocław, Poland

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Prophets and losses

Fooled by Randomness: the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Thomson Texerre, 2004

ISBN 1-58799-184-5

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Great book: pity about the title

Dissecting antismokers’ brains

By Michael J McFadden

Aethna Press, 2004

ISBN 0-9744979-0-8

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Blowing away the froth

Environment and Health – Myths and Realities

Edited by Kendra Okonski and Julian Morris

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A curate's egg

Damned lies and statistics: untangling numbers from the media, politicians and activists

By Joel Best

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Telling it how it is

Warning Signs
by Alan Caruba

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If only THEY would read it!

The Solar Fraud:
Why Solar Energy Won't Run The World

By Howard C Hayden

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A scientific tour de force

The Cholesterol Myths

By Uffe Ravnskov

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Another from the doyen

Junk Science Judo

Steven J Milloy

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Fear or favour?

The Tyranny of numbers

David Boyle

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But just how sceptical?

The Skeptical Environmentalist

Bjorn Lomborg

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A modern Horror story

PC,M.D. How political correctness is corrupting medicine by Sally Satel

Basic Books, 2000

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A truly remarkable book

THE RISE AND FALL OF MODERN MEDICINE by James Le Fanu

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What are we doing to them?

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: Third world problems – first world preoccupations

Edited by Lorraine Mooney and Roger Bate

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A mind out of balance

Earth in the balance by Al Gore

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A rare good read

THE LEARNING GAME by Jonathan Smith

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Patronising for moderns

THE NEW ELITES: Making a career in the masses by George Walden.

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Will the real Professor Park please stand up?

VOODOO SCIENCE: the road from foolishness to fraud by Robert Park.

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The Classics

The words of the master

THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD Science as a candle in the dark By Carl Sagan

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Let the asses bray?

Higher Superstition The academic left and its quarrels with science by Paul R Gross and Norman Levitt

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La Comedie-Francaise

INTELLECTUAL IMPOSTURES by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont

FASHIONABLE NONSENSE by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont

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Frightening, depressing but hugely entertaining

Gallileo’s Revenge Junk Science in the Courtroom by Peter W Huber

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A must read!

HOW WE KNOW WHAT ISN'T SO: The fallibility of human reason in everyday life by Thomas Gilovich

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A touching detective story

THE FAITH HEALERS by James Randi

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An instruction manual for the establishment

SILENCING SCIENCE by Steven Milloy and Michael Gough

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The rational guidebook to our irrational world

WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS: Pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time
By Michael Shermer

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