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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (Tears) Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 11:10:10 +0100
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On 28/04/2024 21:51, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 10:10:29 -0700, Robert Woodward
> <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
> 
>> In article <v0lhko$sat$1@panix2.panix.com>,
>> jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
>>
>>> Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
>>>
>>> A survey of an era overrun by cranks, charlatans, and legions of
>>> wilfully gullible fools. A bit off topic, but significant SF figures
>>> appear in the text.
>>>
>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/all-the-madmen
>>
>> I read many of the same books you did (at least the right wing books)
>> and I am neither an anti-vaxxer nor do I scream vile epithets at
>> anybody. I don't believe I have read this book, though I read reviews of
>> it in several SF magazines.
> 
> Ditto - and having read Martin Gardner's work in Scientific American
> over multiple decades you could convince me to read most anything with
> his name on it.
> 
> Not quite sainthood but close...

Just to warn though, he is not the only
Professor Martin Gardner.  So, something
with his name on may be not from this
Martin Gardner.