Zimmerman L. Bad Science

New York: Eagle Press, 2011. — 244 p.2011 Silver Medal Winner for Humor, from the Independent Publisher's Awards. Bad Science: A Brief History of Bizarre Misconceptions, Totally Wrong Conclusions, and Incredibly Stupid Theories takes a humorous look at bloodletting, alchemy, quack devices, the worship of meteorites, faked data, secret testing on people, and all kinds of really ridiculous ideas. From the ancient Greeks to the present, the history of science has been fraught with persecution, fraud, and ignorance on a massive scale--but that doesn't mean we can't laugh about it!Medicine.
A Shocking Experience.
Animal Magnetism.
Where’s your Sense of Humour?
The Royal Touch.
Getting Your Head Read.
William Harvey.
Keep them From Harm.
Bad Blood.
Lying About Your Age.
The Pen is Mightier than the Scalpel.
When Good Scientists Go Bad.
A Hole in One.
Human Guinea Pigs.
Fun with Radium and X-Rays.
Chemistry and Pharmaceuticals.
The Sears Catalog Did Have Everything.
Legal Poison.
Defective Testing.
Nobel Prize for Death and Destruction.
You Are What You Eat?
One Bad Apple.
Dephlogistocation.
Who Needs Scientists and Chemists, Anyway?
Birth, Contraception,and Sex.
It’s The Thought That Counts.
The Birth of an Anesthetic.
Burning Curiosity.
Clamping Down on a Family Secret.
Take Two Aspirin and Get Burned at the Stake.
Breeding Like a Rabbit.
Inconceivable Conception.
Back in the Saddle Again.
Childbed Fever.
A Stitch in Time.
Rule of.
Egyptian Dick and Jane An Ancient Tale of Contraception.
Dentistry.
The Evil Tooth Worm.
Paying with your Teeth.
Rub Them Out.
Hush, Little Baby.
Washing your Mouth Out with What?
Geology, Paleontology, Archaeology (and other things found in dirt).
Stone Blind.
Skeletons in the closet.
The Cardiff Giant.
Another Giant Hoax.
Piltdown Man.
Missing the Link.
Divine Hands.
The Thirst for Gold.
Catch My Drift?
Be Careful What You Ask For.
The Miracle Mineral.
Astronomy & the Space Program.
Just in Time for Dinner.
A Slight Miscalculation.
Not So Happy Hour.
Counter-Intelligence.
The More The Merrier.
Job Security.
Too Much of a Bad Thing.
Music To His Spheres.
It Takes an Upstart.
Hitting Bottom.
A High Stake Gamble.
A Banner’s Day.
To See, Or Not to See.
Insult and Injury.
They Didn’t Call Them Dark For Nothing.
Can’t Make Them Think.
Six and Six Equal Nothing.
Rising Above The Occasion.
Send in the Clowns.
Locke, Stock, and Barrel.
Castles in the Sky.
As The Planets Turn.
Can't Argue With Success.
Blood, Sweat, and Fears.
You Think Your Job Is Tough?
Eclipsing Reason.
Now You See It, Now You Don’t.
Aiming To Please.
Et Tu, Augustus?
Good Comet, Bad Comet.
In The Eyes of the Beholder.
It’s the “Thought Balls” that Count.
All Dressed Up and Look Out Below!
Divine Protection?
Hot Rocks.
Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind.
Another Nutty Professor?
One of the Few Times Bigger Isn’t Better.
Bad Archaeoastronomy.
Friar Fire.
Is Anybody Home?
Put Up and Shut Up.
Martians Are Easy.
Fine Line.
Lunar Roving.
Broken-down Chariots.
Not Worth the Ink.
Let’s Face It.
Star War?
Deep Disturbance.
It Doesn’t Take a Rocket Scientist.
Have You Ever Been Plutoed?
Hubble, Hubble, Toil and Trouble.
In Conclusion: The Mother of All Bad Space Travel (or Lack Thereof).
Scientists, Heredity, DNA, Firearms, and Everything Else that didn’t Fit into Previous Categories.
Spontaneous Generation.
Pasteur.
Shooting Your Mouth Off.
William Charlton.
Perpetual Fraud.
Was it Dominant or Recessive Fraud?
Hereditary Nonsense.
Getting the Cold Shoulder.
Taking Out the Garbage?
The Unkindest Cut of All.
Breathtaking Inanity.