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As Far As I Know, Clifford Pickover Is The First Mathematician To Write A Book About Areas Where Math And Theology Overlap. Are There Mathematical Proofs Of God? Who Are The Great Mathematicians Who Believed In A Deity? Does Numerology Lead Anywhere When Applied To Sacred Literature? Pickover Covers These And Many Other Off-trail Topics With His Usual Verve, Humor, And Clarity. And Along The Way The Reader Will Learn A Great Deal Of Serious Mathematics.

The Violence And Double-talk In The Alice Books Probably Does No Harm To Children, But The Novels Should Not Be Allowed To Circulate Indiscriminately Among Adults Who Are Undergoing Analysis.

Debunking Bad Science Should Be Constant Obligation Of The Science Community, Even If It Takes Time Away From Serious Research Or Seems To Be A Losing Battle. One Takes Comfort From The Fact There Is No Gresham's Laws In Science. In The Long Run, Good Science Drives Out Bad.

Politicians, Real-estate Agents, Used-car Salesmen, And Advertising Copy-writers Are Expected To Stretch Facts In Self-serving Directions, But Scientists Who Falsify Their Results Are Regarded By Their Peers As Committing An Inexcusable Crime. Yet The Sad Fact Is That The History Of Science Swarms With Cases Of Outright Fakery And Instances Of Scientists Who Unconsciously Distorted Their Work By Seeing It Through Lenses Of Passionately Held Beliefs.

Wouldn't The Sentence 'i Want To Put A Hyphen Between The Words Fish And And And And And Chips In My Fish-and-chips Sign' Have Been Clearer If Quotation Marks Had Been Placed Before Fish, And Between Fish And And, And And And And, And And And And, And And And And, And And And And, And And And Chips, As Well As After Chips?