The undergrowth of science : delusion, self-deception and human frailty / Walter Gratzer.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

xi, 328 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Introduction. -- Blondlot and the n-rays. -- Paradigms enow : some mirages of biology. -- Aberrations of physics : Irving Langmuir investigates. -- Nor any drop to drink : the tale of polywater. -- The wilder shores of credulity. -- Energy unlimited. -- What the doctor ordered. -- Science, chauvinism and bigotry. -- The climate of fear. -- Science in the Third Reich : bigotry, racism and extinction. -- Nature nurtured : the rise and fall of eugenics. -- Envoi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-321) and index.