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The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: A True Medical Mystery. - Review - book review
Skeptical Inquirer, July, 2000 by Kendrick Frazier
The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: A True Medical Mystery. Clifford A. Pickover, Ph.D. Prometheus Books, 59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, NY 14228-2197. 2000. ISBN 1-57392-794-5. 232 pp. Softcover. $19. Pickover here tells the story of "history's most fascinating medical mystery," amazing reports that a young English woman named Mary Toft in 1726 gave birth to rabbits and other monstrous misfits.
Pickover says Mary's story contains timeless themes of justice and morality, crime and punishment, and science and superstition. He says it is a metaphor for today's fringe science, from psychic surgery to goat-sucking chupacabras and, in general, hoaxes perpetuated in the name of science.
COPYRIGHT 2000 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
COPYRIGHT 2000 Gale Group
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