The undergrowth of science : delusion, self-deception, and human frailty / Walter Gratzer.

Introduction.
Blondlot and the n-rays.
Paradigms enow : some mirages of biology.
Aberrations of physics : Irving Langmuir investigates.
Nor any drop to drink : the tale of polywater.
The wilder shores of credulity.
Energy unlimited.
What the doctor ordered.
Science, chauvinism and bigotry.
The climate of fear.
Science in the Third Reich : bigotry, racism and extinction.
Nature nurtured : the rise and fall of eugenics.
Envoi.