Lest anyone think that physicists don’t care about the real world, Bob Park publishes a short weekly newsletter that touches on subjects ranging from scientific hoaxes to inconsistencies in the way the U.S. Administration handles various issues. It mostly concentrates on science and technology, but not only. The Friday, October 26, 2007 newsletter also discusses the successful methods WWII soldiers used to interrogate Nazis, while the Friday, November 2, 2007 newsletter includes the quote “John Marburger, head of the White House science office, realized that the situation she described was serious; decisive action was needed at once — so he deleted half the report. ”
The tagline on the site is Opinions are the author’s and are not necessarily shared by the University, but they should be
. I’ve been reading the newsletter for years and it’s always been interesting.
Professor Park also wrote a book, Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, that neatly debunks a lot of hoax (or misguided, to be more charitable) science in a readable way.