By Robert J. Schadewald
“What enjoyable to have Bob Schadewald’s significant essays eventually to be had! those thoughtful/insightful essays (perpetual movement, flat-earthism, creationism, Velikovskyism) are required analyzing for an individual trying to comprehend why those principles persist, despite their loss of medical merit.”
– Eugenie C. Scott, nationwide heart for technology Education
“Bob Schadewald was once an excellent guy with a superb brain. His criticisms opposed to ‘creation technology’ practice both to cutting-edge creationism, ‘intelligent design.’ Lois’ posthumous ebook of this e-book is yet another present from Bob to the area of technological know-how and literature.”
– Barbara Forrest, writer, Creationism’s malicious program: The Wedge of clever Design
“No technology author wrote approximately pseudoscience with larger accuracy and humor than Bob Schadewald. it's excessive time that his nice contributions to the starting to be literature of appreciate for actual technology over bogus technology have been ultimately recognized.”
– Martin Gardner, technology author, Mathemagician
“The top method of knowing technology is to appreciate pseudoscience, a beneficial lesson during this time of ‘Intelligent layout’ swindles. when you detect that ‘Scientific Creationism’ works precisely like Velikovskyism and Flat Earth ‘Science,’ the jig is up. Schadewald’s good-natured yet unsparing scrutiny is either hilarious and infuriating.”
– Robert M. expense, magazine of upper Criticism"
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Worlds Of Their Own: A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair by Robert J. Schadewald
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