Voodoo science : the road from foolishness to fraud

An entertainingly written examination of the social, economic, and political forces that elicit or support flawed or fake science and sustain it in the face of often overwhelming contrary evidence. Voodoo Science includes pseudoscience, or irrational beliefs dressed up in scientific garb, the misuse of science to deliberately mislead, and pathological science, in which scientists persist with their interpretations long after the evidence has effectively discredited them.