Robert Lee Park (born January 16, 1931 in Kansas City, Missouri), also known as Bob Park, is a professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park and a former Executive Director of the American Physical Society. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. The University of Maryland College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland UMD, UMCP or simply Maryland) is a public research The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the World 's second largest organization of physicists behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Park is most noted for his critical commentaries on alternative medicine, telepathy and homeopathy in his popular book Voodoo Science. The term alternative medicine, as used in the modern western world encompasses any healing practice "that does not fall within the realm of conventional Medicine. Telepathy ( Greek τηλε tele meaning "distant" and πάθεια patheia meaning "to be affected by" describes the purported transfer This article has been the subject of edit wars and has been placed on probation Voodoo science, is a Pejorative Neologism referring to research that falls short of adhering to the scientific method He is also seen in the media as an outspoken critic of human spaceflight, efforts to colonize space, and the prototype U. A human spaceflight is a Spaceflight with a human crew, and possibly passengers Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization, Space habitation, etc S. National Missile Defense. National missile defense (NMD as a generic term is a type of Missile defense: a military strategy and associated systems to shield an entire country against incoming He criticized Dennis Lee's claims that he had invented a device from which he could extract "free energy", which would violate the conservation of energy. The term perpetual motion, taken literally refers to movement that goes on forever In Physics, the law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of Energy in an isolated system remains constant and cannot be created although it may
Park writes a weekly column, What's New, which features discussions on topics such as science news, space exploration, energy, the government in science, pseudoscience, alternative medicine, the creation-evolution controversy, and nuclear weapons. The creation-evolution controversy (also termed the creation vs
Park was one of the featured participants in the alternative medicine episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit!. This is a list of all Penn & Teller Bullshit! episodes. Season 1 2003 Season 2 2004 Season 3 2005 Penn & Teller ( Penn Fraser Jillette and Teller) are Las Vegas headliners whose act is an amalgam of illusion and Comedy.
He has characterized Wikipedia as a target for misuse by the "purveyors of pseudoscience". Pseudoscience is defined as a body of knowledge methodology belief or practice that is claimed to be Scientific or made to appear scientific but does not adhere to the [1]
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Books
- Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-514710-3.
See also
References
- ^ Bob Park (2007-03-23). Wikipedia is the largest Free content Encyclopedia project written by volunteers, as a result of which it has attracted criticism Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Wikipedia: Has a beautiful idea fallen victim to human nature?. What's New By Bob Park. Retrieved on 2007-04-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of
External links
- What's New – Bob Park's weekly column and newsletter
- Robert L. Park – faculty homepage, Physics Department, University of Maryland, College Park
- A Claim-Buster by Calling, by Patricia Cohen, New York Times April 29, 2000
- Testing the Current, by Charles Platt, a review of Voodoo Science, Washington Post, June 25, 2000
- Objections to Platt's review, including one from Park, with a response from Platt, Washington Post, July 23, 2000, page X11 (reproduced at the NucNews website; scroll about one third down, or search for the term "voodoo")
- APS's Bob Park elected a CSICOP fellow, Skeptical Inquirer, Nov-Dec, 2004 (reproduced at findarticles. Charles Platt (born in London England 1945 is the author of 41 fiction and nonfiction books including science-fiction novels such as The Silicon Man and The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D The Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American Magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI with the subtitle com)
- Robert Lee Park, 1998 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award Recipient
- What's New: The end of an era APS News, July 2006, announcing that Park is stepping down as APS spokesperson
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