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1931–2020 United States
Robert Lee Park (January 16, 1931 – April 29, 2020) was an American professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a former director of public information at the Washington office of the American Physical Society. Park was most noted for his critical commentaries on alternative medicine and pseudoscience, as well as his criticism of how legitimate science is distorted or ignored by the media, some scientists, and public policy advocates.
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Every step taken by science claims territory once occupied by the supernatural.
Voodoo Science (2000)
It is an axiom in the publishing business, however, that pseudoscience will always sell more books than the real science that debunks it.
Voodoo Science (2000)
The integrity of science is anchored in the willingness of scientists to test their ideas and results in direct confrontation with their scientific peers.
Voodoo Science (2000)
It is not so much knowledge of science that the public needs as a scientific worldview—an understanding that we live in an orderly universe, governed by physical laws that cannot be circumvented.
Voodoo Science (2000)
They are betting against the laws of thermodynamics. No one has ever won that wager.
Voodoo Science (2000)
Consciously or unconsciously, the strategy of true believers is to isolate themselves from skeptics.
Voodoo Science (2000)
America's astronauts have been left stranded in low-Earth orbit, like passengers waiting beside an abandoned stretch of track for a train that will never come, bypassed by the advance of science.
Voodoo Science (2000)
Few scientists or inventors set out to commit fraud. In the beginning, most believe they have made a great discovery. But what happens when they finally realize that things are not behaving as they believed?
Voodoo Science (2000)
[T]he uniquely American myth of the self-educated genius fighting against a pompous, close-minded establishment.
Voodoo Science (2000)
I came to realize that many people choose scientific beliefs the same way they choose to be Methodists, or Democrats, or Chicago Cubs fans. They judge science by how well it agrees with the way they want the world to be.
Voodoo Science (2000)
For a million years, our species was confronted with a world we could not hope to understand. Now, within a span of a single human lifetime, the book of nature has been opened wide. On its pages we are finding, if not a simple world, at least an orderly world in which everything from the birth of stars to falling in love is governed by the same natural laws.
Voodoo Science (2000)
What may begin as an honest error...has a way of evolving through almost imperceptible steps from self-delusion to fraud. The line between foolishness and fraud is thin. Because it is not always easy to tell when that line is crossed, I use the term voodoo science to cover them all: pathological science, junk science, pseudoscience and fraudulent science.
Voodoo Science (2000)
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