Book:Martin Gardner/Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience

Martin Gardner: Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience

Published $\text {2000}$, W.W. Norton

ISBN 0-393-32238-6

Contents

Introduction

Part I Evolution vs. Creationism

1. Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?

2. Phillip Johnson on Intelligent Design

Part II Astronomy

3. Near-Earth Objects: Monsters of Doom?

4. The Star of Bethlehem

Part III Physics

5. The Great Egg-Balancing Mystery

6. Zero-point Energy and Harold Puthoff

7. David Bohm: The Guided Wave

Part IV Medical Matters

8. Reflexology: To Stop a Toothache, Squeeze a Toe!

9. Urine Therapy

Part V Psychology

10. Freud's Flawed Theory of Dreams

11. Post-Freudian Dream Theory

12. Jean Houston: New Age Guru

Part VI Social Science

13. Is Cannibalism a Myth?

14. Alan Sokal's Hilarious Hoax

15. The Internet: A World Brain?

16. Carlos Castaneda and New Age Anthropology

Part VII UFOs

17. Claiborne Pell, Senator from Outer Space

18. Courtney Brown's Preposterous Farsight

19. Heaven's Gate: The UFO Cult of Bo and Peep

Part VII More Fringe Science

20. Thomas Edison, Paranormalist

21. What's Going On at Temple University?

Part IX Religion

22. Isaac Newton, Alchemist and Fundamentalist

23. Farrakhan, Cabala, Baha'i, and 19

24. The Numerology of Dr. Khalifa

25. The Religious Views of Stephen Jay Gould and Darwin

26. The Wandering Jew

27. The Second Coming

Part X The Last Word

28. Science and the Unknowable

Index