Editing Voodoo Science (section)

{{Short description|2000 book by Robert L. Park}}
{{Infobox book
| name          = Voodoo Science:<br />The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
| image         = Voodoo-science.jpg
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| caption       = Cover of the first edition
| authors       = [[Robert L. Park]]
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| country       = UK & USA
| language      = English
| series        = 
| subjects      = [[Science]], [[Pseudoscience]]
| publisher     = Oxford University Press
| published     = 2000
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
| pages         = 230
| isbn          = 0-19-860443-2
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| external_url  = {{Google books|xzCK6-Kqs6QC|Voodoo Science|plainurl=yes}}
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'''''Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud'''''<ref name=Park2000>{{citation |year=2000 |author=Park, Robert L |author-link=Robert L. Park
 |title=Voodoo Science: The road from foolishness to fraud |place=Oxford, U.K. & New York |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=0-19-860443-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzCK6-Kqs6QC&q=%22voodoo+science%22 |access-date=14 November 2010}}</ref> is a book published in 2000 by physics professor [[Robert L. Park]], critical of research that falls short of adhering to the [[scientific method]]. Other people have used the term "voodoo science",<ref>{{cite book
 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XoZJ8SP-44oC&q=%22Voodoo+science%22
 |title= Oversight Hearing on the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
 |work= Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources
 |publisher= United States Congress
 |year= 1984
 |access-date=16 October 2011
}}</ref><ref>William Booth. (1988). ''Voodoo Science''. ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]''. New Series. Vol. 240, No. 4850. pp. 274-277.</ref> but amongst academics it is most closely associated with Park.<ref>[http://www.skepdic.com/voodooscience.html "Voodoo Science"]. ''[[The Skeptic's Dictionary]]''.</ref> Park offers no explanation as to why he appropriated the word ''[[Hoodoo (spirituality)|voodoo]]'' to describe the four categories detailed below.<ref name=Park2000/>  The book is critical of, among other things, [[homeopathy]], [[cold fusion]] and the [[International Space Station]].<ref name="Regis2000">[[Ed Regis (author)|Ed Regis]]. (2000).[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E4D6153DF937A35755C0A9669C8B63 "Theres One Born Every Minute &#91;sic&#93;"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref>