Larger	Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects Author: Martin Gardner
	Book Information Publisher: W. W. Norton Company Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780393049633 - ISBN-10: 0393049639 Publication Date: 10/2000 Pages: 320

A hilariously skeptical work that ranks with Harold Bloom's Omens of the Millennium and Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World. Martin Gardner--"one of the most brilliant men and gracious writers I have ever known," according to Stephen Jay Gould--is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating dissembler of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. In Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?, Gardner muses on topics as diverse as numerology, the late Senator Claiborne Pell's paranormal passions, Freud's flawed dream theory, the Heaven's Gate suicides, William F. Buckley's Nearer, My God, and the seemingly inexhaustible American appetite for third-rate science. Indeed, no one has ever written so witheringly of New Age nostrums than Gardner does here. His funny, brilliantly unsettling exposes of reflexology and urine therapy alone should be required reading for anyone interested in "alternative" medicine. In a world increasingly tilted toward superstition, Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? will give those of us who prize logic and common sense immense solace and inspiration.