by Martin Gardner · MR · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427017542
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«Extravagancias y disparates» is Martin Gardner's essay on irrationality and pseudoscience, published by MR in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Martin Gardner brings together articles and essays in which he ironically analyses the world of superstition and irrational beliefs, from parapsychology and UFOs to certain religious movements. With a critical and informative approach, he dismantles the fallacies of gurus, televangelists and charlatans, and defends rational thought against pseudoscientific fads.
The book belongs to the collection «Libros para la controversia» from the publisher Alcor, as stated on the cover, and includes a prologue by Vladimir de Semir.
Recommended for readers interested in scientific scepticism, rationalist popularisation and criticism of pseudosciences.
Martin Gardner was an American writer on popular mathematics and popular science. His interests also encompassed magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll; The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.
