Galileo's revenge : junk science in the courtroom

著者

• Huber, Peter W. (Peter William)

書誌事項

Galileo's revenge : junk science in the courtroom

Peter W. Huber

Basic Books, c1993

• : pbk

注記

Includes index

"With a new preface for the paperback edition"--Cover

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

* 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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB06433169
• ISBN:
  • 0465026249
• LCCN: 91070055
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: x, 274 p.
• 大きさ: 21 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : K487.S3
  • DC20 : 347/.067
  • DC20 : 342.767
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Science and law
  • LCSH : Forensic sciences
  • LCSH : Evidence, Expert
  • LCSH : Torts -- United States