Robert L. Park
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Dr. 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. Park is most noted for his critical commentaries on alternative medicine and pseudosciences such as telepathy and homeopathy in his popular book Voodoo Science. He is also seen in the media as an outspoken critic of human spaceflight, efforts to colonize space, and the prototype U.S. National Missile Defense. 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.
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.
Park was one of the featured participants in the alternative medicine episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit!.
He has characterized Wikipedia as a target for misuse by the "purveyors of pseudoscience".[1]
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[edit] Books
- Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-514710-3.
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[edit] References
- ^ Bob Park (2007-03-23). Wikipedia: Has a beautiful idea fallen victim to human nature?. What's New By Bob Park. Retrieved on 2007-04-02.
[edit] External links
- What's New – Bob Park's weekly column and newsletter
- Bob Park's Universe – personal homepage
- 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.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
