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| September 01, 2003 | Franklin, James | COPYRIGHT 2003 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Martin Gardner Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries? W. W. Norton, 287 pages, $25.95

"When I was a freshman at the University of Chicago in 1932," Martin Gardner writes in Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?, "I intended to become a physicist. For better or worse, I got sidetracked into philosophy." He soon became a writer instead, but his seventy or so books have all been informed by the sound understanding of science, mathematics, and philosophy that one could acquire at a good university in that distant era. Those disciplines have given him a firm footing for the center of his life's work, the exposure of fraud in charlatans pretending to be ...

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