Description
By Dr. Revilo P. Oliver. A brand new edition of this classic work, reformatted and meticulously proofed and hand-edited. It contains the entire original text, plus 66 new explanatory footnotes, in addition to the original footnotes. All six images have been restored to better than original quality. It also contains 19 new photographs, all illustrating topics discussed in the text, including:
– the spurious and fantastic origin of the “Nazi UFO” delusion;
– the absurd “canals and face on Mars” nonsense;
– the “Piltdown Man” evolutionary hoax;
– the absurd 1917 “Fatima sun miracle” in Portugal;
– the made-up gibberish of Erich von Däniken and his “gods from space” tripe;
– the ridiculous origin of the Mormon church; and more.
In this volume, Professor Oliver critically analyses—and destroys—all the modern shibboleths, weird beliefs, mass delusions, and psychotic hallucinations which plague the world and European people in particular.
He provides a highly amusing overview of superstitions, folk lore, popular myths, UFOs, Pyramid Power, ghosts, spoon-bending, psychic powers, organized religion, scientists who believe in hokum and much more—all the while providing his typically unique insights into race, racial psychology, society, sex, and the role of Judaism and Christianity.
This is without doubt one of his best books, and certainly the rarest.
About the author: Dr Revilo Pendleton Oliver, Professor of the Classics at the University of Illinois for thirty two years, was a scholar of international distinction who wrote scholarly articles in four languages, which were published in twelve learned periodicals of the United States and Europe.
Contents
Introduction: The Margaret Mead Hoax
Biographical Note
Chapter 1: Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?
Chapter 2: Scientific Suckers
Chapter 3: Our Spooners
Chapter 4: The Gawking Scientists in the Sticks
Chapter 5: The Pip-Squeak Effect
Chapter 6: Anything Goes!
Chapter 7: Through the Looking Glass
Chapter 8: Ain’t Science Wonderful?
Chapter 9: Superstition Springs Eternal
Chapter 10: Metaphysics
Chapter 11: Is There Any Hope?
Chapter 12: The Gospel
Chapter 13: The Anatomy of Revolution
Chapter 14: A Question of Taxonomy
Chapter 15: The Fly in the Ointment
