If you want more books on sideways thinking, go straight to Robert Park’s
excellent Voodoo Science: The road from foolishness to fraud (Oxford
University Press, £18.99, ISBN 0198507453) in which the author, a
physicist at the University of Maryland, takes on junk science. It’s just come
out in Britain (reviewed in New Scientist, 3 June 2000, p 50).
Also just published in Britain—and praised when published in the US
earlier this year—is the intriguing The Blackwinged Night: Creativity
in nature and mind (Perseus, £17.95, ISBN 0738202053) by F. David
Peat. A physicist contemplates creativity, concluding that it…
