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...like the federal jury, concluded the Senator had abused his office by accepting a secret share in a Virginia titanium mine, attempting to obtain a $100 million loan for the venture, and promising to use his influence to secure government contracts for the mine and immigration papers for the bogus sheik. His conduct, said Chairman Malcolm Wallop, "was ethically repugnant to the point of warranting his expulsion...
Women's Wear Daily produced the most inventive coverage of the week, presenting a bogus drawing of Lady Diana's bridal gown the day before the ceremony. "We said this could be a hoax before we ran it," said Publisher John Fairchild. "I thought it made a very amusing story." Fleet Street was at its creative best, too, telling readers what Charles whispered to Diana at intimate moments. And how did the newspapers find out? They hired lip readers...
SCIENCE: GOOD, BAD AND BOGUS by Martin Gardner; Prometheus 408 pages...
Gardner's prose was sharp, his logic devastating and his humor irrefutable. But for every slain theory, ten new ones seemed to grow, and today a burgeoning interest in the paranormal has provided new targets for the patented Gardner weapons of ridicule and reason. Science: Good, Bad and Bogus discusses the fresh fascination with Roman Lull, a 13th century Spanish theologian who devised a roulette-like numerical system for revealing the secrets of the universe. Seven centuries later, Gardner reports, victims are still playing numbers games-with results that only benefit the charlatans who run them. Other chapters examine...
...early on, the skeptic's skeptic acknowledges that the most obvious evidence of fraud will not budge the True Believer. Instead, Gardner writes for those who agree with the 1920s observation of H.L. Mencken that one horselaugh was worth 10,000 syllogisms. As Science: Good, Bad and Bogus proves, it still is. -By Frederic Golden