Slowly…slowly…and this blog becomes bi-weekly updated!!

God knows it !
I find the truth, there is always no enough time for work, no matter about Job, School affairs, even for Life. Sigh… the most important is how to evaluate and assign things-to-be-done correctly by importance and urgency.
But I don’t think this principle-to-obey is easy as a cake; in truth, I regard it as a rock.
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I cannot always express my feeling with no any advice for public, since I’m not famous, and who cares this small guy?
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Therefore, I suggest one book, “Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud“, written by Robert Park. There is also the trad-Chinese version, which is NT 250, not expensive. Here I post some advice of this great work.

 

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com

Scientific error, says Robert Park, “has a way of evolving … from self-delusion to fraud. I use the term voodoo science to cover them all: pathological science, junk science, pseudoscience, and fraudulent science.” In pathological science, scientists fool themselves. Junk science refers to scientists who use their expertise to befuddle and mislead others (usually juries or lawmakers). Pseudoscience has the trappings of science without any evidence. Fraudulent science is, well, fraud–old-fashioned lying.

Park is well-acquainted with voodoo science in all its forms. Since 1982, he has headed the Washington, D.C., office of the American Physical Society, and he has carried the flag for scientific rationality through cold fusion, homeopathy, “Star Wars,” quantum healing, and sundry attempts to repeal the laws of thermodynamics. Park shows why a “disproportionate share of the science seen by the public is flawed” (because shaky science is more likely to skip past peer review and head straight for the media), and he gives a good tour of recent highlights in Voodoo. He has a rare ability to poke holes compassionately, without excoriating those taken in by their fondest wishes. Park is less forgiving of scientists (especially Edward Teller) when he thinks they’ve fallen down on the job, a job that should include helping the public separate the scientific wheat from the voodoo chaff. –Mary Ellen Curtin

The New York Times Book Review, Ed Regis
Whatever else you may think about pseudoscience, at least it’s entertaining. For much more of this high comedy, see the frequently droll and invariably enlightening pages of Robert Park’s Voodoo Science.

內容簡介
本書是羅伯‧派克十多年來對於科學家們及其欺騙伎倆的觀察所得。他一反科學家們堅持矯正巫毒科學的方法是提高一般科學讀寫能力的論點,主張大眾需要的不是科學的特殊知識,而是科學的世界觀。認為:不需要先成為科學家,就能辨別充斥四周愚蠢、欺騙性的科學。
  書中沒有艱澀難懂的科學用語,沒有沈重煩瑣的數學縯繹及說明,只有一則則淺顯易懂的科學故事,旨在帶領我們穿越這條曖昧不明「邊緣科學」的羊腸小徑,甚至走入人類的進化史中,探究巫毒科學的源頭。

Sigh…. Suddenly find it’s hard to use in Blogger while editing some paragraph for additional explanation. Is it the time I really need to find out my new blog space? sigh…..

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