4.06 avg rating — 44,760 ratings

""Ben Goldacre has made a point of exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies.""

4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings

""Edited by Michael Shermer, editor and publisher of The Skeptic magazine, this truly unique work provides a comprehensive introduction to the most prominent pseudoscientific claims made in the name of "science."""

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

""Plans were made to build an aircraft carrier out of ice to launch attacks on submarines in the mid-Atlantic gap.""

3.73 avg rating — 84 ratings

""Traces the history of the mad scientist character in novels, films, and popular culture, and describes how this figure reflects anxieties about scientific and technological change...""

3.54 avg rating — 890 ratings

""The Book of the Damned has become a classic in its field. "By the damned I mean the excluded," Fort states in the famous opening - those facts excluded by "Dogmatic Science.""

3.12 avg rating — 32 ratings

""We are constantly bombarded with breaking scientific news in the media, but we are almost never provided with enough information to assess the truth of these claims.""

3.52 avg rating — 216 ratings

""Ellis explores the far edges of humanity, the people who are hanging to reality by the thinnest of threads, and those that are simply off their rockers." (comic)"

3.57 avg rating — 72 ratings

""An entertaining and irreverent expose of science gone wrong...""

3.85 avg rating — 301 ratings

""Jennifer Ouellette skillfully blends science and popular culture to shed vibrant new light upon some of the most revolutionary scientific inventions in the history of mankind.""

3.64 avg rating — 752 ratings

""Brilliant scientific successes have helped shape our world, and are always celebrated. However, for every victory, there are no doubt numerous little-known blunders.""

3.89 avg rating — 168 ratings

3.70 avg rating — 192 ratings

3.94 avg rating — 598 ratings

4.02 avg rating — 4,045 ratings

""James Randi is internationally known as a magician... But for the past 35 years... he has also been active as an investigator of the paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims that have impressed the thinking of the public...""

3.81 avg rating — 591 ratings

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3.55 avg rating — 488 ratings

4.13 avg rating — 622 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,153 ratings

3.53 avg rating — 158 ratings

3.55 avg rating — 67 ratings

3.04 avg rating — 78 ratings

4.18 avg rating — 2,625 ratings

3.90 avg rating — 200 ratings

4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings

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3.96 avg rating — 169 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings

4.04 avg rating — 5,243 ratings

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings

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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings

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4.16 avg rating — 340 ratings

4.38 avg rating — 61 ratings

3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings

""Featuring Uncle John’s most mind-bending science articles--along with a few all-new “experiments”--this book will make you think, make you laugh, and make you ask yourself, “What the heck were they thinking?”""

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

""This is a guide to how someone can actual dimensionally travel scientifically. From a christian perspective.""

3.56 avg rating — 1,385 ratings

""The Science of Monsters will explore monsters that have haunted humanity throughout the ages, from Medusa to sea serpents, giants, and vampires.""

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

""From alchemists and armchair inventors to rogue doctors and radioactive teenagers, this book profiles the real-life figures who blurred the line between genius and insanity. Meet Wilhelm Reich, who tried to harness sexual energy to control the weather.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings

""What's WEIRD about science? How about two-headed cows, animals with ears on their knees, crop circles, frogs falling from the sky, and scientists from the planet Venus? It's all here...""

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

""Explore the experiments that defied ethics, common sense, and physics the chemist who tasted poison to prove a theory, the doctor who electrified corpses to “reanimate” them, and the physicist who accidentally created one of the deadliest materials on Earth.""

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

""Newton wrote far more on the esoteric realm of alchemy than on physics and optics; Tesla hatched many extraordinary schemes that seem based more in science fiction than science fact; and Edison attempted to construct a telephone for speaking with the dead.""

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings

""A butterfly is born male on one side and female on the other. A pioneering transplant scientist sews a second head onto a dog. A showman makes a series of goats into unicorns. A chicken lives for a year-and-a-half without his head.""

3.91 avg rating — 175 ratings

""Fringe Science delves into the science, science fiction, and pseudoscience of Fringe with a collection of essays on everything from alternate universes to time travel to genetically targeted toxins, as well as discussions on the show’s moral philosophy and the consequences of playing God.""

3.76 avg rating — 4,745 ratings

""...an experiment to determine what happens to an elephant given a massive dose of LSD. This book reveals the results of this scientific trial and scores of other outrageous, amusing, and provocative experiments.""

3.78 avg rating — 718 ratings

""Electrified Sheep is packed with eccentric characters, irrational obsessions and extreme experiments. Watch as scientists attempt to nuke the moon, wince at the doctor who performs a self-appendectomy and catch the faint whiff of singed wool from an electrified sheep.""

4.03 avg rating — 262 ratings

""What if we’re living inside a black hole? What if we’ve already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ was actually a mushroom?""

3.40 avg rating — 62 ratings

""New York Times best-selling humorist Leland Gregory chronicles laboratory experiments gone awry, modern-day mad scientists, and scientific mythconceptions inside Stupid Science.""

4.37 avg rating — 17,102 ratings

""Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas.""

4.14 avg rating — 194,768 ratings

""What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away?""

3.92 avg rating — 56,001 ratings

""The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.""

4.15 avg rating — 8,399 ratings

""History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating... missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the U.S.""

4.16 avg rating — 183,744 ratings

""...young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing...""

4.07 avg rating — 6,216 ratings

""...the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bodies and our universe... this book explores oft-ignored but alluring facets of biology, anatomy, space exploration, nature, and more.""

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings

""S.D. Tucker delves into the Nazi and Soviet historical hijacking of science by extreme ideologies, revealing the dangerous consequences of pseudoscientific narratives in today's world.""

4.01 avg rating — 213 ratings

""...questions are answered in the one guide that no aspiring horrible scientist should be without. "Explosive Experiments" blows up the red hot details of dodgy experiments that have set the world of science alight! ""

4.26 avg rating — 329 ratings

""Read about brilliant breakthroughs, explosive experiments and feeble failures. This book gives a potted history of scientists and their discoveries, from the first Greek brainboxes to modern day geniuses...""

3.96 avg rating — 441 ratings

""What happens if you go too close to a black hole? -How do flies tell the time? -Why the years pass more quickly as you get older? If you think you can stomach the sick side of science, then read on...""

4.16 avg rating — 594 ratings

""Are you spaced-out to which astronomers killed people? why space makes the guts explode? what the moon smells like? If you think you can stomach the sick side of Science, then read on...""

3.89 avg rating — 454 ratings

""Are you buzzing to discover how an electric eel can give you a nasty shock?; why electricity keeps your heart beating?; or which scientist gave electric shocks to his eyeballs?""

4.26 avg rating — 47 ratings

""Readers will be fascinated to find out which scary surgeon stole a giant's dead body and what Egyptians did with tortoise brain...""

4.16 avg rating — 170 ratings

""It includes chapters on ancient medicine - Stone Age trepanning, Chinese medicine, Romans, Greeks: the dodgy diagnostics of the Middle Ages; the bloody operations before anaesthetics and hygiene were implemented...""

4.21 avg rating — 365 ratings

""Readers will discover why someone invented the bottom-stabbing bike saddle and why you would need a toilet snorkel.""

4.07 avg rating — 117 ratings

""...who invented pong-free underpants? Which strange scientists ate tadpoles for tea? The revolting recipe for green slime? Plus learn to dance like a skunk, eat like a chimp and chat in cat language.""

4.05 avg rating — 1,172 ratings

""Martin Gardner has added new, up-to-date material to an already impressive account of hundreds of systematized vagaries. Here you will find discussions of hollow-earth fanatics like Symmes; Velikovsky and wandering planets; Hörbiger, Bellamy, and the theory of multiple moons; Charles Fort and the Fortean Society; dowsing...""

3.63 avg rating — 178 ratings

""Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella-- astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind. But defining what makes these fields "pseudo" is a far more complex issue...""

3.17 avg rating — 1,081 ratings

""Kevin Young tours us through a rogue's gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump.""

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings

""Even experts get duped from time to time – and often by other scientists or experts. Some hoaxes are intended merely as well-intended humorous tricks while others are serious frauds...""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings

""New ideas are tested by scientists around the world to ensure that they hold up to scrutiny. This book takes a look at the instances when, despite these precautions, the scientific community got it wrong.""

3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings

""Scientists are smart people, trained to be skeptical and to test their hypotheses. But sometime hoaxes, fakes and mistakes rock their world. Hoaxed! uncovers and explains 17 brilliantly bogus stories...""

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

""...this was a golden age of sorts for impostors and forgers, as well as the age when a dystopia of the universal scholarly forgery was imagined by a French erudite, Jean Hardouin...""

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

""This eBook boldly delves into the heart of UFO sightings, unraveling the intricate web of hoaxes, misidentifications, and cultural implications.""

3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings

""The book will inform and entertain a wide range of readers interested in space exploration and tells a gripping story covering physics, politics and history.""

4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings

""Lynda Walsh explores a provocative era in American history—the proliferation of fake news stories about scientific and technological discoveries from 1830 to 1880.""

3.35 avg rating — 57 ratings

""...some SF writers – especially those with a background in professional science – are so adept at “technobabble” that it can be difficult to work out what is fake and what is real.""

3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings

""Mistakes and Hoaxes, 100 things science got wrong, all the amazing stories - from crop circles to encounters with the unknown and beyond.""

3.50 avg rating — 1,639 ratings

""A graphic milestone of investigative reporting, Cunningham’s essays explode the lies, hoaxes and scams of popular science, debunking media myths and decoding some of today’s most fiercely-debated issues...""

3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings

""Many books debunk pseudoscience, and some others present only the scientific consensus on any given issue. In At the Fringes of Science Michael Friedlander offers a careful look at the shadowlands of science.""

3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings

""Psychologists conduct scientific investigations into a lot of strange things including alien encounters, horoscopes, dream interpretation, superstition, and extrasensory perception (ESP).""

3.90 avg rating — 1,212 ratings

""Recent polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, despite it being one of science’s best-established findings.""

3.94 avg rating — 1,620 ratings

""From Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old" to unwarranted hype surrounding the International Space Station, Robert Park leads us down the back alleys of fringe science, through the gleaming corridors of Washington power and even into our evolutionary past...""

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings

""Phrenology.""

3.60 avg rating — 944 ratings

""As he did so convincingly in The Cure for Everything, Caulfield separates sense from nonsense and provides usable, evidence-informed advice about what actually works and what is a complete waste of money and time.""

3.97 avg rating — 118 ratings

""The paranormal is so ubiquitous in one form of entertainment or another that many people easily lose sight of the distinction between the real and the imaginary,""

3.88 avg rating — 163 ratings

""Charles Fort's parade of scientific anomalies frames the larger anomaly that is human existence. "Lo!" is a book with the capacity to rewire brains and sculpt new lenses for seeing the unexpected, the unexplained...""

4.03 avg rating — 578 ratings

""From alternative medicine, aliens, and psychics to the farthest shores of science and beyond, Robert Carroll presents a fascinating look at some of humanity's most strange and wonderful ideas.""

3.62 avg rating — 634 ratings

""Shermer argues that while science is the best lens through which to view the world, it is often difficult to decipher where valid science leaves off and borderland, or "fuzzy." science begins...""

3.87 avg rating — 470 ratings

""Beyond the world we can quantify, classify and analyse there is another, more mysterious world. In this book Arthur C Clarke investigates this supra-scientific world.""

4.09 avg rating — 10,500 ratings

""Karl Pribram, one of the architects of our modern understanding of the brain -- believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind.""

3.25 avg rating — 1,697 ratings

""Since 1943 hundreds of plane and ships, and thousands of people, have disappeared in the ocean between Bermuda and the Florida coast, the Bermuda Triangle.""

4.19 avg rating — 842 ratings

""The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government scientists during the 1940s. Antigravity technology, originally spearheaded by scientists in Nazi Germany, was another high priority...""

3.57 avg rating — 74 ratings

""...in 1967 Nelson orchestrated the freezing of Dr. James Bedford, the first human to be placed in cryonic suspension. Soon thereafter he began freezing others who sought his help, obtaining special capsules and an underground vault.""

3.86 avg rating — 10,880 ratings

""Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada’s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades.""

4.03 avg rating — 4,156 ratings

""From the Silicon Valley tech billionaires currently trying to work out whether or not the universe is one giant video game simulation; to the self-proclaimed community of Italian time-travellers who are trying to save the world...""

3.95 avg rating — 253 ratings

""The history of science is littered with theories that were scientific but turned out to be wrong; the scientific attitude reveals why even a failed theory can help us to understand what is special about science...""

4.17 avg rating — 8,012 ratings

""...how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge...""

3.47 avg rating — 313 ratings

""Presents accounts of true and unusual incidents that are unable to be explained by modern science.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,849 ratings

""Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When snorting skull moss was a cure for a bloody nose.""