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From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr. - Review - book review
Skeptical Inquirer, Jan, 2001 by Kendrick Frazier
On Science, Literature, and Religion. Martin Gardner. Prometheus Books, 59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, NY 14228-2197. 2000. ISBN 1-57392-852-6. 300 pp. Hardcover. $27. A new collection of Gardner essays and reviews other than those published in the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER (although one SI piece, "Life Magazine and Astrology," does appear).
Most, as he says, are mainly attacks on bogus science and what I regard as religious superstition. Among the books reviewed are Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World. Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine, Paul Edwards' Reincarnation, and Reuben Hersch's What is Mathematics, Really? Other topics include Frank Baum's Oz books, Lewis Carroll, H.G. Wells, and Hugo Gernsback. Gernsback's magazine Science and Invention was one of Gardner's great delights as a boy, and Gardner calls him not only the Father of American Science Fiction but one of the nation's great science popularizers.
COPYRIGHT 2001 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group
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