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- catalog abstract ""Expert" witnesses claim a luxury car accelerates when you step on the brake, though no defect is ever found. Whooping cough vaccine, said to cause brain damage and death, is almost removed from the market, though thirty years of epidemiological studies attest to its safety. Cerebral palsy cases, using electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) as evidence, flood the courts, despite overwhelming proof that EFM does not reduce birth defects. Spurious claims such as these, backed. By fringe eccentrics whose "research" has no standing in the scientific community, have resulted in astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived all of us of superior technologies and effective and life-saving therapies. Peter Huber, an M.I.T.-trained engineer and one of the country's leading experts on liability law, offers a scathing indictment of how legions of case-hardened lawyers have successfully shifted the. Law from the rule of fact, using professional "expert" witnesses to press unsubstantiated claims on the basis of what nobody but a lawyer would call science. In the let-it-all-in atmosphere of today's courtrooms, lawyers have set off in pursuit of scientific speculators, cranks, and iconoclasts. "One way to dishonor Galileo is to imprison him for heresy," Huber writes. "Another, quite as effective, is to teach his views side by side with those of astrologers and. Mystics." Galileo's Revenge documents this peculiarly American phenomenon, showing how ancient rules of evidence do not discriminate between serious science and junk.".
- catalog contributor b3279732.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "c1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1991.".
- catalog description ""Expert" witnesses claim a luxury car accelerates when you step on the brake, though no defect is ever found. Whooping cough vaccine, said to cause brain damage and death, is almost removed from the market, though thirty years of epidemiological studies attest to its safety. Cerebral palsy cases, using electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) as evidence, flood the courts, despite overwhelming proof that EFM does not reduce birth defects. Spurious claims such as these, backed.".
- catalog description "By fringe eccentrics whose "research" has no standing in the scientific community, have resulted in astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived all of us of superior technologies and effective and life-saving therapies. Peter Huber, an M.I.T.-trained engineer and one of the country's leading experts on liability law, offers a scathing indictment of how legions of case-hardened lawyers have successfully shifted the.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-259) and index.".
- catalog description "Law from the rule of fact, using professional "expert" witnesses to press unsubstantiated claims on the basis of what nobody but a lawyer would call science. In the let-it-all-in atmosphere of today's courtrooms, lawyers have set off in pursuit of scientific speculators, cranks, and iconoclasts. "One way to dishonor Galileo is to imprison him for heresy," Huber writes. "Another, quite as effective, is to teach his views side by side with those of astrologers and.".
- catalog description "Mystics." Galileo's Revenge documents this peculiarly American phenomenon, showing how ancient rules of evidence do not discriminate between serious science and junk.".
- catalog description "pt. I. The Lawyer and the Scientist Trade Places. Ch. 1. Liability Science: Better Living Through Litigation. Ch. 2. The Science of Things That Aren't So: Junk Science and Its Origins -- pt. II. Law and Pseudoscience. Ch. 3. The Midas Touch: How Money Causes Disease. Ch. 4. Sudden Acceleration: Runaway Panic in the Mass Media. Ch. 5. Gadgets and Knives: Cashing In on Magical Cures. Ch. 6. No Immunity: Chemicals Cause Everything. Ch. 7. Nausea: The Massed Legal Attack. Ch. 8. The Paranoia Plebiscite: The Legal Pursuit of Fad Terrors. Ch. 9. Harmonious Coupling: Ignoring the Environment -- pt. III. The Rule of Fact. Ch. 10. The Cargo Cult: Does Liability Science Work? Ch. 11. Stopping Points: Confronting Malpractice on the Witness Stand. Ch. 12. Science and Certitude.".
- catalog extent "viii, 274 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0465026230 :".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "c1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "[New York, NY?] : Basic Books,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "347/.067 342.767 20".
- catalog subject "Evidence, Expert.".
- catalog subject "Forensic sciences.".
- catalog subject "K487.S3 H82 1991".
- catalog subject "Legislation".
- catalog subject "Science and law.".
- catalog subject "Science legislation.".
- catalog subject "Torts United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. The Lawyer and the Scientist Trade Places. Ch. 1. Liability Science: Better Living Through Litigation. Ch. 2. The Science of Things That Aren't So: Junk Science and Its Origins -- pt. II. Law and Pseudoscience. Ch. 3. The Midas Touch: How Money Causes Disease. Ch. 4. Sudden Acceleration: Runaway Panic in the Mass Media. Ch. 5. Gadgets and Knives: Cashing In on Magical Cures. Ch. 6. No Immunity: Chemicals Cause Everything. Ch. 7. Nausea: The Massed Legal Attack. Ch. 8. The Paranoia Plebiscite: The Legal Pursuit of Fad Terrors. Ch. 9. Harmonious Coupling: Ignoring the Environment -- pt. III. The Rule of Fact. Ch. 10. The Cargo Cult: Does Liability Science Work? Ch. 11. Stopping Points: Confronting Malpractice on the Witness Stand. Ch. 12. Science and Certitude.".
- catalog title "Galileo's revenge : junk science in the courtroom / Peter W. Huber.".
- catalog type "text".