Silly New-Age Pseudo Science Gets a Sound Thrashing. A review of “veteran

science writer and playful gadfly” Martin Gardner’s Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? ‘Most of the essays…are “attacks on far-out cases of

pseudoscience.” Gardner’s targets are generally not the religious notions or

superstitions of people swept along by their ancient cultures but phony science

promulgated by, and believed in, by people who should know better. Thus he does

not attack the pious millions who, in Brazil, are devoted to the cult of the Virgin

Mary that they celebrate in Belen on the Amazon every October. Rather, he

skewers such “preposterous” claims that “positions of stars correlate with character

and future events.” ‘ LA Times