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Student Reviews

Vodoo Science

BMJ 2001; 323 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0109352a (Published 01 September 2001) Cite this as: BMJ 2001;323:0109352a
  1. Ben Mills, preregistration house officer in anaesthetics1
  1. 1Greenock

This is not an evidence based study of pins, dolls, and the living dead, but rather an entertaining study of some of the great fake science episodes of our time, from Roswell to cold fusion, power lines to perpetual motion. The author is, by day, a professor of physics. By night he is the American Physical Society's chief inquisitor, hunting out the scientific discoveries where orthodox scientific method is, to say the least, thin on the ground. He has filled this …

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