Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction

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A necessary antidote to the anti-science and pseudoscience that has gained new prominence... The main features that add to the text are illustrations by the esteemed cartoonist Sidney Harris... Recommended. * CHOICE * Very few books give the lay person the ability to tell good from bad. While many books are there to inform you of this or that fact in an authoritarian manner, few prepare you to judge for yourself. This book is a stellar counter-example. * Ramamurti Shankar, Professor of Physics, Yale University * Praise for the first edition: Quantum Leaps is one of a far too small cluster of rational books that responds to "voodoo science" issues. * Leon M. Lederman, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics * In a succinct and jargon-free style, the authors take us through the principles of accepted scientific thinking. They remind us that the processes of observation, hypothesis formation, testing, forming conclusions, and revision are inviolable. Such basics should not be new to us in medicine, but we may have become unfamiliar with this structure and discipline over the years. * Journal of the American Medical Association * I believe that the inspired title illustrates [Dr. Wynnas] talent very well. Even the inspired title conveys the sense in which the subject will be handled, and encourages the reader to look not only between the covers, but between the lines as well. I cannot imagine that anyone who has picked up that volume can resist looking further into the subjects discussed. And that is the one major purpose of education, to stimulate the student into looking further than the teacher had. Just as the late Carl Sagan went beyond his special field of astronomy to educate the public, Dr. Wynn reaches out past chemistry and brings our attention to the basic problems of understanding the universe and dealing with it. * James Randi, President of the James Randi Educational Foundation *