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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeRosa has captured the essence of my research in a well crafted prose that will make it accessible to a wide readership. -- Robert Schoch, author of Voices of the Rocks: Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations (Crown Publishing Group, 1999)
I am impressed at how much of the substance of a very complex subject has been abstracted into simple language understandable to the non-specialist. -- Carver Mead, author ofCollective Electrodynamics (MIT Press, 2002)
Well done and easy to read. Advocating unpopular theories will always be a difficult task. -- Peter Duesberg, author of Inventing the AIDS Virus (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1997)
Although I disagree with a number of points, there are no factual errors. -- Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
In the next 10-20 years, breakthroughs are most likely to come from the pool of the 'Principals' whose ideas are discussed here. -- Tom Van Flandern, Author of Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets (North Atlantic Books, 1998)
It is valuable to discuss and comment on minority views in science. Well explained and well written. -- Halton Arp, author of
Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science (Apeiron, 1998)
DeRosa has captured the essence of my research in a well crafted prose that will make it accessible to a wide readership. -- Robert Schoch, author of Voices of the Rocks: Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations (Crown Publishing Group, 1999)
I am impressed at how much of the substance of a very complex subject has been abstracted into simple language understandable to the non-specialist. -- Carver Mead, author ofCollective Electrodynamics (MIT Press, 2002)
Well done and easy to read. Advocating unpopular theories will always be a difficult task. -- Peter Duesberg, author of Inventing the AIDS Virus (Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1997)
Although I disagree with a number of points, there are no factual errors. -- Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
In the next 10-20 years, breakthroughs are most likely to come from the pool of the 'Principals' whose ideas are discussed here. -- Tom Van Flandern, Author of Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets (North Atlantic Books, 1998)
An FDA advisory panel recently came around to seeing what I've been saying for years. -- Peter Breggin, author ofToxic Psychiatry (St. Martin's Press, 1994)
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Preface: A Dedication Chapter 2 Introduction: What is Apocryphal Science? Chapter 3 The Principles: Unrecognized Trailblazers of Progress Chapter 4 Intelligent Design: Science or Old Time Religion? Chapter 5 A Little Knowledge: A Psychiatrist's Crusade Chapter 6 An Old Tactic: A Climatologist Reports on Global Warming Chapter 7 Fifty Thousand Doctors: Why They Will Never Find a Cure for AIDS Chapter 8 On Classical Ground: Petr Beckmann's Relativity Chapter 9 Winger's Friend: The Strange World of Quantum Physics Chapter 10 The Electricians: Collective vs. Galilean Electrodynamics Chapter 11 See No Evil: Heretic Arp's Challenge Chapter 12 Wrestling Superman: Tom Van Flandern's Meta Science Chapter 13 The Face: A Fact that Could Change Everything Chapter 14 Over the Line: Exploring the Borders of Science Chapter 15 The Sphinx: Mild-Mannered Geologist Makes Waves Chapter 16 Space Seeds: DNA: The Cosmic Genetic Code Chapter 17 The End of Science? The Dead-end of Mainstream Science Chapter 18 Real Conspiracies: The Case for Apocryphal Science Chapter 19 Appendix A: New Science, Tesla, and Flimflam Chapter 20 Appendix B: Good Nutrition and Health Hoaxes Chapter 21 References Chapter 22 Index
