by Peter W. Huber
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
INTRODUCTION
PART I
THE LAWYER AND THE SCIENTIST TRADE PLACES
CHAPTER I
Liability Science: Better Living Through Litigation
CHAPTER 2
The Science of Things That Aren't So: Junk Science
and Its Origins
PART II
LAW AND PSEUDOSCIENCE
CHAPTER 3
The Midas Touch: How Money Causes Disease
CHAPTER 4
Sudden Acceleration: Runaway Panic in the Mass Media
CHAPTER 5
Gadgets and Knives: Cashing In on Magical Cures
CHAPTER 6
No Immunity: Chemicals Cause Everything
CHAPTER 7
Nausea: The Massed Legal Attack
CHAPTER 8
The Paranoia Plebiscite: The Legal Pursuit of Fad
Terrors
CHAPTER 9
Harmonious Coupling: Ignoring the Environment
PART III
THE RULE OF FACT
CHAPTER 10
The Cargo Cult: Does Liability Science Work?
CHAPTER 11
Stopping Points: Confronting Malpractice on the
Witness Stand
CHAPTER 12
Science and Certitude
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX