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Galileo's Revenge Peter W Huber

Galileo's Revenge By Peter W Huber

Galileo's Revenge by Peter W Huber


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Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom by Peter W Huber

A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have usedand the courts have acceptedspurious claims by so-called expert witnesses to win astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived us all of superior technologies and effective, life-saving therapies.

Table of Contents

Introduction * The Lawyer And The Scientist Trade Places Liability Science: Better Living Through Litigation The Science of Things That Arent So: Junk Science and Its Origins * Law And Pseudoscience The Midas Touch: How Money Causes Disease Sudden Acceleration: Runaway Panic in the Mass Media Gadgets and Knives: Cashing in on Magical Cures No Immunity: Chemicals Cause Everything Nausea: The Massed Legal Attack The Paranoia Plebiscite: The Legal Pursuit of Fad Terrors Harmonious Coupling: Ignoring the Environment * The Rule Of Fact The Cargo Cult: Does Liability Science Work? Stopping Points: Confronting Malpractice on the Witness Stand Science and Certitude

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CIN0465026230G
9780465026234
0465026230
Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom by Peter W Huber
Used - Good
Hardback
Basic Books
1991-11-26
288
N/A
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