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Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in Ihe Courtroom Paperback - 1993

by Peter W. Huber


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A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have used--and the courts have accepted--spurious claims by so-called expert witnesses to win astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived us all of superior technologies and effective, life-saving therapies.

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W. C. Clark tells the story in his classic 1981 essay, "Witches, Floods, and Wonder Drugs."

From the rear cover

This is a book about scientific cranks and iconoclasts who peddle their strange diagnostics and quack cures not at country fairs but in courtrooms across the land.

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  • Title Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in Ihe Courtroom
  • Author Peter W. Huber
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, Scrantan, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Date 1993-03-24
  • ISBN 9780465026241 / 0465026249
  • Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.12 x 0.73 in (20.32 x 13.00 x 1.85 cm)
  • Reading level 1330
  • Library of Congress subjects Torts - United States, Forensic sciences
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91070055
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.067

About the author

Peter Huber is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, where he specializes in issues related to technology, science, and law. His previous books include Hard Green, Liability, and Galileo's Revenge. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Peter W. Huber, an M.I.T.-trained engineer and a Harvard law graduate, has also taught at M.I.T. and formerly clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. A Manhattan Institute Fellow, he lives in Washington, D.C.
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