Science Thinking Bibliography
Our understanding of the nature of science has been nurtured throughout our lives through contact with scientists in science classes, in labs, and in science-based careers. It, and our conviction that pseudoscience is damaging both to individuals and society, has been further informed by a number of excellent science historians, philosophers, and practicing scientists. Following are some of our favorites:
"Against Health Fraud." 1994. Skeptic 3(1): 50-57.
American Medical Association. Reader's Guide to Alternative Health Methods. American Medical Association. 1993.
Astin, John A., Ph.D. 1998. "Why Patients Use Alternative Medicine." JAMA 279(19): 1548-1553.
Baum, Michael, Ch.M., F.R.C.S. 1996. "Quack Cancer Cures or Scientific Remedies?" Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 89: 543-547.
Burnham, John D., Ph.D. 1990. "The Evolution of Editorial Peer Review." JAMA 263(10): 1323-1329.
Desai, Nina S., Pharm, D., et al. 1997. "Evaluation of Drug Information in an Internet Newsgroup." Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association NS37(4): 391-394.
Cromer, Alan. Uncommon Sense. New York: Oxford University Press. 1993.
Dunbar, Robin. The Trouble with Science. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1995.
Ernst, Edward, M.D., Ph.D. 1997. "Are We All Quacks?" Archives of Family Medicine 6: 389-390.
Gardner, Martin. Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1957.
Gilovich, Thomas. How We Know What Isn't So. New York: The Free Press. 1991.
Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 1981.
Grinnell, Frederick. The Scientific Attitude. New York: The Guilford Press. 1992.
Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Jarvis, William. 1994. "Homeopathy: A Position Statement by the National Council."
Kassirer, Jerome P., M.D., 1995. "The Next Transformation in the Delivery of Health Care." NEJM 332(1): 52-54.
Keoun, Brad. 1996. "Cancer Patients Find Quackery on the Web." Journal of the National Cancer Institute 88(18): 1263-1265.
Knoll, Elizabeth, Ph.D. 1990. "The Communities of Scientists and Journal Peer Review." JAMA 263(10): 1330-1332.
Kronick, David A., Ph.D. 1990. "Peer Review in 18th Century Scientific Journalism." JAMA 263(10): 1321-1322.
Ladnyi, I.D., Jezek, Z., Gromyko, A. 1983. "Five Years of Freedom from Smallpox." J. Hyg. Epidemio. Microbiol. Immunol. 27(1): 1-12.
Lock, Stephen, M.D., M.Sc., F.R.C.P., and Smith, Jane, M.Sc. 1990. "What Do Peer Reviewers Do?" JAMA 263(10): 1341-1343.
Lyons, Albert S., M.D., and R. Joseph Petrucelli, II, M.D. Medicine: An Illustrated History. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1978.
Mehra, Jagdish. The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Moore, John A. Science as a Way of Knowing. Massachusetts: Harvard Univ. Press, 1993.
Murray, David, J. Schwartz, and S. R. Lichter. It Ain't Necessarily So. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2001.
NIH Homepage. http://www.nih.gov/od/ofm/CJ99/budgetpolicy.html
Panati, Charles. Browser's Book of Endings. New York: Penguin Books. 1989.
Park, Robert. Voodoo Science. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000.
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo. Inevitable Illustions. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1994
Randi, James. Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and other Delusions. New York: Prometheus Books. 1982.
Rautalahti, M., and Huttenen, J., 1994. "Antioxidants and Carcinogenesis." Annals of Medicine 26(6): 435-441.
Rennie, Drummond, M.D., F.R.C.P. 1990. "Editorial Peer Review in Biomedical Publication: The First International Congress." JAMA 26310): 1317.
Renwick, S.B. 1996. "Silicone Breast Implants: Implications for Society and Surgeons." Medical Journal of Australia 165(6): 338-341.
Rong, Y., et al. 1994-95. "Pycnogenol protects vascular endothelial cells from t-butyl hydroperoxide induced oxidant injury." Biotechnol. Ther. 5(3-4): 117-126.
Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. New York: Ballantine, 1996.
Schick, Theodore Jr., and Lewis Vaughn. How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2002.
Shermer, Michael. The Borderlands of Science. New York: Oxford University Press. 2001.
Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things. New York: W.H. Freeman Co., 1997.
Short, Sarah H., Ph.D., Ed.D., R.D. 1994. "Health Quackery: Our Role as Professionals." Journal for the American Dietetic Association 94(6): 607-611.
Silberg, William M., et al. 1997. "Assessing, Controlling, and Assuring the Quality of Medial Information on the Internet." JAMA 277(15): 1244-1245.
Sorrentino, Matthew, M.D. 1998. "EDTA Chelation Therapy Not Recommended for Peripheral Vascular Atherosclerotic Disease." Alternative Medicine Alert 1(6): 61-63.
Stavrakis, Peter, M.D., 1997. "Heroic medicine, bloodletting, and the sad fate of George Washington." Maryland Medical Journal 46(10): 539-40.
Stossel, John. Give Me A Break. New York: Harper Collins Publishers. 2004.
Taverne, Dick. The March of Unreason. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005
Van Jaarsveld, H., et al., 1996. "Effect of flavonoids on the outcome of myocardial mitochondrial eschemia/reperfusion injury." Re. Commun. Mol. Pathol. Pharmacol. 91(1): 65-75.
Waller, L.A. 1997. "A Note on Harold S. Diehl, Randomization and Clinical Trials." Controlled Clinical Trials 18(2): 180-183.
Wanjek, Christopher. Bad Medicine. New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons. 2003.
Weller, Ann C., M.A. 1990. "Editorial Peer Review in U.S. Medical Journals." JAMA 263(10): 1344.
Wynn, Charles M., and Arthur W. Wiggins. Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press. 2001.
Yankauer, Alfred, M.D., M.P.H. 1990. "Who Are the Peer Reviewers and How Much Do They Review?" JAMA 163(10): 1338-1340.
Young, James Harvey. American Health Quackery. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1992.
Zwicky, John F., Ph.D., et al. Alternative Health Methods. [United States] American Medical Association, 1993.