Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. Here he muses on topics as diverse as numerology, New Age anthropology, and the late Senator Claiborne Pell's obsession with UFOs, as he mines Americans' seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bad science. Gardner's funny, brilliantly unsettling exposes of reflexology and urine therapy should be required reading for anyone interested in "alternative" medicine. In a world increasingly tilted toward superstition, Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? will give those of us who prize logic and common sense immense solace and inspiration. "Gardner is a national treasure...I wish [this] could be made compulsory reading in every high school and in Congress." Arthur C. Clarke "Nobody alive has done more than Gardner to spread the understanding and appreciation of mathematics, and to dispel superstition." The New Criterion, John Derbyshire

馬丁．葛登能（Martin Gardner）

當代最著名的科普作傢，有《跳齣思路的陷阱》、《啊哈！有趣的推理》《葛老爹的推理遊戲》（以上中譯本均為天下文化齣版）等多本暢銷著作。曾是《科學美國人》雜誌「數學遊戲」專欄作者，此專欄持續刊登長達二十五年，一直廣受歡迎。葛登能的著作超過七十本，內容囊括數學、科學、哲學和文學等領域。他獲頒的獎項包括兩個榮譽博士學位以及好幾項科學和數學寫作獎。