Galileo's revenge : junk science in the courtroom
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Galileo's revenge : junk science in the courtroom
Basic Books, c1993
- : pbk
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Includes index
"With a new preface for the paperback edition"--Cover
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A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have used,and the courts have accepted,spurious 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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